[vtk-developers] vtkImageMandelbrotSource scalar type

[David Gobbi]

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:18 AM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:
> The documentation says:
> "vtkImageMandelbrotSource creates an unsigned char image of the
> Mandelbrot set. "
>
> However, in the RequestInformation function, I see
>
>   vtkDataObject::SetPointDataActiveScalarInfo(outInfo, VTK_FLOAT, 1);

Fix the documentation.  I seems that it needs to produce float.

I noticed that it uses "unsigned short" internally to count iterations.
It should probably use vtkTypeUInt64 instead, and should also use
vtkTypeUInt64 for MaximumNumberOfIterations.

  David