[vtk-developers] Best fit plane function location

[Dean Inglis]

Hi David,

could this be added to vtkMath?  Or what about starting
a vtkGeometryUtilities or vtkGraphicsUtilities to hold static
methods that are not really worthy of creating a filter class around?

Dean

Subject: [vtk-developers] Best fit plane function location


> If you'll recall, a while back we tried to add a BestFitFroMPoints 
> function
> to vtkPlane. This caused some issues with cross-library linkage. Is this 
> big
> enough to make a separate class: vtkBestFitPlane (or maybe
> vtkLeastSquaresPlane)?
>
> I noticed that there is no vtkImplicitFunctionAlgorithm, so is this 
> usually
> not done?
>
> I'm thinking something like:
> vtkPoints* points = vtkPoints::New();
> // ... fill points....
> vtkBestFitPlane bestFitFilter = vtkBestFitPlane::New();
> bestFitFilter->SetInput(points);
> bestFitFilter->Update();
>
> vtkPlane* bestPlane = bestFitFilter->GetOutput();
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>


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