[Paraview] creating solid objects using polydata

[David E DeMarle]

vtkPolyData is limited to sets of points, lines, and planar polygons.
vtkUnstructuredGrid has tetrahedra etc in addition to the above.

On 3/12/08, Andre Phillion <andre.phillion at epfl.ch> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> Using paraview, I am trying to view a sequence of polyhedra based on a
> constrained 3D voronoi tessellation as polydata objects. An example of my
> polydata file is enclosed. However, when I cut the polyhedra using the clip
> tool, there is empty space on the interior of the object.
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> Could someone help me to create a solid object instead of this 'shell'
> object.
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> Thank you,
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> André
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> Dr. André Phillion
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> Laboratoire de Simulation des Matériaux
>  Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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> MXG-318, Station 12, CH-1015, Switzerland
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> Tel / Fax: +41(21)693 3942 / 5890
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> <?xml version="1.0"?>
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> <VTKFile type="PolyData" version="0.1" byte_order="LittleEndian"
> compressor="vtkZLibDataCompressor">
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> <PolyData>
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> <Piece NumberOfPoints="18" NumberOfPolys="11">
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> <Points>
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> <DataArray type="Float32" Name="Points" NumberOfComponents="3"
> format="ascii">
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> 278.133 330.375 205.982
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> 243.471 308.427 249.488
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> 228.474 241.738 182.425
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> 227.006 241.446 185.225
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> 222.559 275.061 245.514
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> 224.657 246.233 176.452
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> 173.926 271.068 185.12
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> 174.701 270.48 185.512
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> 276.903 373.889 199.168
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> 234.654 373.889 247.148
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> 219.646 373.889 203.163
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> 162.114 285.447 188.913
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> 162.042 309.587 193.903
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> 280.754 363.501 196.755
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> 226.308 359.087 259.419
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> 201.019 330.364 256.579
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> 176.591 282.008 209.837
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> 202.143 288.336 249.385
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> </DataArray>
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> </Points>
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> <Polys>
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> <DataArray type="Int32" Name="connectivity" format="ascii">
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> 0          2          3          4          1
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> 5          2          3          7          6
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> 8          9          10
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> 5          6          11        12        10        8          13
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> 8          13        0          1          14        9
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> 10        9          14        15        12
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> 5          2          0          13
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> 7          6          11        16
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> 7          3          4          17        16
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> 11        12        15        17        16
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> 14        1          4          17        15
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> </DataArray>
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> <DataArray type="Int32" Name="offsets" format="ascii">
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> 5 10 13 20 26 31 35 39 44 49 54
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> </DataArray>
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> </Polys>
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> </Piece>
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> </PolyData>
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> </VTKFile>
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