[vtk-developers] vtkVoxelModeller converted from BIT to INT

[Bill Lorensen]

I didn't say phased out, I said not well supported. Here isw what I
said last fall:

"I think this is a bug in the writer. The scalar data type is VTK_BIT.
I'm, guessing the writer can't handle this type.

I changed the scalar type to short in my local copy of vtk and the
program ran without warnings. However, I still could not read the file
in paraview. But I changed the writer to a vtkDataSetWriter and it ran
without warning. In this case, when the type was short, I was able to
see the voxels. As VTK_BIT I could not.

VTK_BIT is not a well-supported type."

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:56 AM, David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Will Schroeder <will.schroeder at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> David-
>> What's the reason why the vtkXMLImageDataWriter can't be fixed to support
>> VTK_BIT? Your change might be okay, but if I understand what you've done
>> correctly, this will cause a significant increase in memory when reading the
>> data back in.
>> Will
>>
>
> If I remember a discussion with Bill Lorensen from a while a go, VTK_BIT has
> been phased out (hence the writer doesn't support it). Is this not the case?
> Thanks,
>
> David
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