[vtk-developers] Polyhedron Cells

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Brian Dotson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are developing a new CFD application and were looking at the VTK
> file format to store our results.  The only problem is that the new CFD
> software will most likely use polyhedron cells.  Are there plans to add
> polyhedron cells to the VTK file format?

VTK already has a notion of convex point set:

http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkConvexPointSet.html

Does this fit your purpose ?



On a side note VTK has now a more general approach for dealing with any 
kind of cells:

http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkGenericDataSet.html
http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkGenericAdaptorCell.html

HTH
Mathieu