[Ves] VTK pipelines in VES

[Matthias Baitsch]

Dear VES developers,

we are working on a VES based iPad app where the data to be visualised is created and modified interactively (works great, thanks). However, we need to set up VTK style pipelines (source-filter-mapper-actor) which are updated automatically when rendering occurs.

As far as I can see, vesKiwiPolyDataRepresentation operates on a vtkPolyData object and cannot be connected to a VTK algorithm.

Did I miss something here?

Attached the code for our workaround, maybe it could be useful. We subclassed vesMapper and vesRenderer. The mapper class updates the pipeline and handles the conversion from vtkPolyData to vesGeometryData (using some code borrowed from Kiwi). Our renderer invokes the mapper's update method if needed (code attached).


Best,

Matthias





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