[Insight-developers] Compare text (vtk) files

[Dan Mueller]

Thanks for your prompt responses! I made all the screenshots for the
article using paraview :P

I was looking for something a little more automated to validate the
output. I mean, if I make a change to the code, the only way I can
verify the change is to open the 20+ vtk output files one by one in
paraview. That will have to do for now I guess.

Regards, Dan

On 11 July 2010 16:57, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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