[Insight-developers] VectorContainer and MeshFilter

[Luis Ibanez]

Brad,

I'm ok with Reserve() and Squeeze(),
because this is only called one for all
at the beginning of the Mesh filter, as 
opposed to a lot of insertions of points 
and resizes.

This is only to take care of the possibility
of the output mesh having a previously (larger 
or smaller) allocated number of points, given 
that the filter can be called several times 
with modified inputs:


As far as the rest of the data is concerned,
I'm now copying the containers to data other
than the points, using Set() / Get() methods
as you suggested, so the ouput Mesh will share
this data with the input Mesh.

               +---------------+
               |  Mesh filter  |
inputMesh ---> |   Transform   |----> ouputMesh
    |          |    points     |          ^
    |          +---------------+          | 
    |                                     |
    +-----------> shared data ------------+   
               ( cells, links...)   


If you have a chance, could you please
take a look at the GenerateMethod in
itkAffineTransformMeshFilter, just to
verify that the Mesh class is used 
properly,



Thanks,


Luis


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Luis Ibanez
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