[Insight-developers] Compare text (vtk) files

[Bill Lorensen]

You should at least see if it loads into paraview...


On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Dan Mueller <dan.muel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fair enough.
>
> I see Testing/Review/itkVTKPolyDataWriterTest01 just writes a vtk file
> without validating the output either. I guess this is better than
> nothing, though the test could be writing complete garbage and still
> pass...
>
> Thanks. Dan.
>
> On 11 July 2010 16:40, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not that I know of. Sounds difficult to me because of file formats
>> differences and floating point precision differences on different
>> platforms.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Dan Mueller <dan.muel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Insight Developers,
>>>
>>> I am preparing a submission for the Insight Journal. My new filter
>>> itk::CuberilleImageToMeshFilter outputs mesh (vtk) files. I want to
>>> write some tests which compare the resultant text (vtk) files to
>>> baseline files.
>>>
>>> I know of the ImageCompare tool which can be used to compare output
>>> images to a baseline image. Is there a similar tool or CMake command
>>> to compare output text (vtk) files to a baseline text file?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Regards, Dan
>