[vtk-developers] Examples Guidelines

[David Doria]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Andrew Maclean
<andrew.amaclean at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi David,
> For the simple points reader I would be inclined to rework it using
> vtkParticleReader instead of vtkSimplePointsReader for the simple
> reason that that the vtkParticleReader class reads x,y,z and an
> optional scalar in both binary or ASCII format.
>
> Here is the link to a small converter I posted a while back:
> http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtk-developers/2007-October/004746.html
>
> Feel free to add this one to if you like it.
>
>
> Regards
>    Andrew
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:04 AM, David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com<daviddoria%2Bvtk at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Andrew Maclean <
> andrew.amaclean at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Bill,
> >>
> >> The guidelines look Ok, just one comment: Is there a reason for not
> >> specifying the std:: namespace? E.g. I just like to make it explicit
> >> that for example I am using std::cerr and not cerr.
> >>
> >> If you would like it I am happy to submit an example that reads
> >> x,y,z, r,g,b,a point cloud data and produces a vtp file, I would call
> >> it ReadXYZRGBA. Just tell me where you would like it and I will write
> >> it up.
> >> It will demonstrate a templated parser that skips comments and how to
> >> create and fill a vtkPolyData structure.
> >> Users should be able to easily modify if for reading in x,y,z, scalar
> >> or x,y,z, scalar, r,g,b,a etc. I'll leave some hints in the code!
> >>
> >>  Regards
> >>   Andrew
> >
> > Andrew,
> >
> > I have already added something similar -
> > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/Read_a_delimited_file_into_a_polydata
> > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/Read_a_simple_"xyz"_file_of_points
> > though it is not templated. A templated version is welcome, but I'd leave
> > those simple examples, too, for the "non-c++ expert" type user that is
> > trying to use VTK.
> > Bill,
> > You have definitely captured my vision in this guideline, well written! I
> > agree to all points.
> > Thanks,
> >
> > David
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Thanks Andrew, I added the example (simplified) here:
http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/ReadXYZAFile

David
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