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<p>Thank you for the response and the link; I looked at hidden line removal, it's a very cool feature. Unfortunately, it does not solve my problem, because I use front face culling:</p>
<p>I render the mesh as fully opaque surface representation (not wireframe). Then I cull front faces away, so that I can see objects inside the mesh unobstructed; at the same time, the mesh is opaque, so it obstructs object behind it.</p>
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<p>Software is for medical application, visualizing navigation path inside anatomy -- I want to show path unobstructed, and hide everything behind the anatomy surface model.
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<p>Attaching a couple images of what it looks like in 6.2 with OPENGL backend (i.e. what I want it to look like). ffCullDesired1 is the view user will get; in
<span>ffCullDesired</span>2 I rotated camera to illustrate what's happening. With VTK7.1+OPENGL2 I get the edges obstructing the path.</p>
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<p>One obvious workaround for me would be to turn edge visibility off, and render polygons in color, but I the design has been finalized and I don't have much control over it, I'm just implementing it.
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<p>Any other suggestions are most appreciated!<br>
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<p>Thank you,</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Ken Martin <ken.martin@kitware.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, March 25, 2017 2:18:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Miroslav Drahos<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Unfortunately wireframe backface culling is not implemented. But maybe hidden line removal would do the job or maybe even better. See
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Miroslav Drahos <span dir="ltr">
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<p>Hi VTK folks,</p>
<p>I am rendering a surface with culling faces on and edge visibility on as well. When I used VTK 6.2, only the edges of faces that were visible (i.e. not culled) were shown, with VTK 7.1.0 all edges are visible, even for faces that are culled. My VTK 6.2 was
compiled with rendering backend OPENGL, and 7.1.0 with OPENGL2, which is what most likely causes the difference in behavior.<br>
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<p>It does not matter whether front or back face culling is used, the edge visibility behavior is the same.
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<p>What I am hoping to hear: Is there a way to get the "old" behavior with VTK7.1/OPENGL2?</p>
<p>I would like to show the edges only for the faces that are not culled away. <br>
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<p>Thank you tons,</p>
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