<div dir="ltr">Hi Hengda,<div><br></div><div>It's possible (and actually quite easy) to create a thin-plate spline transform that is not invertible. The simplest example of this is when two of the "source" points map to the same "target" point, but there are other source & target point configurations that cause the thin-plate spline to fold back upon itself.</div><div><br></div><div>In general, the best way to ensure that the thin-plate spline is well-behaved is to make sure that the control points are not too close to each other.</div><div><br></div><div> - David</div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Hengda He <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hh2699@columbia.edu" target="_blank">hh2699@columbia.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi VTK Users<br>
<br>
When I am using VTK: vtkThinPlateSplineTransform Class, sometimes there is<br>
warning like "InverseTransformPoint: no convergence". Why does this happen?<br>
And when I check the transformed volume, I found holes at some place.<br>
<br>
Thank you!<br>
<br>
Hengda he<br></blockquote></div></div></div></div>