[vtk-developers] Manual conversion of some Tcl to Python tests.

[Bill Lorensen]

+1 for tomato and banana

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Nikhil Shetty <nikhil.shetty at kitware.com>wrote:

> Sounds like a good idea.
>
> +1
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Will Schroeder <
> will.schroeder at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Andrew Maclean <
>> andrew.amaclean at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Nikhil, Berk,
>>> I was able to easily rewrite contour2D.tcl and contour3D.tcl to
>>> Python, however in doing this I have a question.
>>>
>>> With respect to contour3D.tcl it uses colour names to specify the
>>> colours. In converting I have used the existing file colors.py.
>>> However this means that you pollute the Python functions with a large
>>> number of variables defined e.g as:
>>> antique_white = (0.9804, 0.9216, 0.8431)
>>>
>>> To me this can be more simply done as a dictionary in Python.
>>>
>>> However in considering this approach a second thought has occurred to
>>> me in that it would be nice to have in VTK 6 a class of colors and
>>> their names.
>>> What do people think of creating a class called say vtkNamedColors
>>> where the underlying structure would be a std::map<std::string,
>>> std::vector> with this map prefilled with the colours defined in
>>> colors.py or colors.tcl?
>>> There would be only two functions e.g GetColor(std::string) returning
>>> a std::vector and SetColor(std::string, std::vector) - this function
>>> would allow the user to add new colours.
>>>
>>> Hopefully this would be wrapped and easy to use in Python etc. thus
>>> removing the need for colors.py.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>    Andrew
>>>
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