[vtk-developers] vtkIntegrateAttributes...closed surface volume?

[Berk Geveci]

I am not sure I follow. IntegrateAttributes should not produce a
volume if you apply it on a surface (i.e. polydata). It should produce
an area. It can only calculate the volume of 3D cells.

-berk

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Gerrick Bivins
<gbivins at objectreservoir.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I'm looking @ using the class vtkIntegrateAttributes (currently in Paraview)
> instead of vtkMassProperties to calculate the volume of datasets.
> I'm wondering why vtkIntegrateAttributes doesn't calculate the volume of a
> closed surface outside of paraview but when used in paraview, it reports the
> volume.
> Also, why isn't the filter able to calculate the volume of a closed surface?
> Thanks for any input here,
> Gerrick
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