[Paraview] smooth a contour surface

[Chr. Rossmanith]

Hi,

did you try shape based interpolation? It's not just an option in 
ParaView but you would have to implement it e.g. using ITK as a 
preprocessing step.

Christina


Am 14.05.2012 19:29, schrieb Tom Schoenemann:
> Hi all,
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> I have figured out how to create a surface from a file (using 
> contour).  However, the surface ends up looking like a step function, 
> whereby the transitions are not smooth.  I assume this is because the 
> file used to create the surface has a voxel resolution that is coarse 
> enough for these transitions are obvious.  However, I'd like to smooth 
> the surface in some way, to eliminate the obvious step transitions. 
>  I've tried the smooth function, but that has minimal effect on my 
> image.  I've also tried setting "compute normals" on the contour 
> filter.  This does smooth the edges, but it doesn't eliminate the 
> obvious steps along the surface.  Is there any way to smooth the 
> surface even more, perhaps by iterations of eroding and dilating?
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated!
>
> -Tom
>
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