[vtk-developers] vtkCleanPolyData

[Berk Geveci]

I think that it should always produce points of the same type as
input. If they want points of type float, they should do that in
another filter.

-berk

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Rusty Blue <rusty.blue at kitware.com> wrote:
> Folks,
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> We were using it on a project to remove duplicate points (tolerance == 0),
> and found out yesterday it wasn’t doing what we wanted.  That is, the
> vtkPoints it creates to replace the input vtkPoints defaults to points of
> type VTK_FLOAT (our input is double, and we need the extra precision).
> Seems to be an error to me.
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> The most obvious thing to do would be to have the output vtkPoints be of the
> same type as the input… but that does mean it will slightly change the
> behavior of the filter (won’t always be VTK_FLOAT points on output).   Could
> instead add a flag that if ON would create output points which are the same
> type as the input (defaults to OFF).
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> Am I over thinking this one?
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> Rusty
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