[vtk-developers] vtkSurfaceReconstructionFilter

[Tim Hutton]

At 14:18 20/06/2002 +0100, I wrote:
>... I'd love to replace it with PowerCrust ... but we're having trouble 
>porting the code compactly to VTK at the moment.

But boy am I close....! Watch this space.

(Hi Rasmus!)



>Tim.
>
>At 14:49 19/06/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>>Hey Folk,
>>
>>Does anyone have an opinion on the API to
>>vtkSurfaceReconstructionFilter? Specifically this filter uses a
>>SetSampleSpacing to determine how many samples to take and what their
>>spacing should be. It defaults to -1 to indicate that it should be
>>automatically computed. I'd like to change this to match some of the
>>other filters in VTK. Other volumetric sources us SetSampleDimensions
>>to specify how many samples to take and then they compute what the
>>spacing should be. This is the opposite of vtkSurfaceReconstruction
>>filter. The advantage of setting the SampleDimensions is that the size
>>of the output volume and its memory footprint can be computed in
>>ExecuteInformation from the SampleDimensions but not from the
>>SampleSpacing (because it doesn't know the bounds of the input in
>>ExecuteInformation). So...  I'd like to add SetSampleDimensions which
>>would default to some reasonable size.  I can leave in
>>SetSampleSpacing which if set would override the SampleDimensions. The
>>only change in behavior would be if you were using
>>vtkSurfaceReconstrucitonFilter and were not setting the SampleSpacing
>>the dimensions of the output volume might change from what you are
>>currently getting.
>>
>>Comments?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Ken
>>
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>>Ken Martin, PhD
>>Kitware Inc.
>>518 371-3971 x101
>>469 Clifton Corporate Pkwy.
>>Clifton Park, NY 12065
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