[vtk-developers] Incremental Point Locators

[David Thompson]

> The last I checked, no. The implication of unbounded locators is that they can span all space, which tends to introduce resolution problems very quickly :-)

The approach I've seen is to use octrees which can be grafted to a new parent node when their bounds need to be enlarged. Unfortunately, I haven't seen it in VTK. :-(

	David

> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Robert Michael O'Bara <bob.obara at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Are there any incremental point locators in VTK that don't require the need to know the largest possible bounds of the points?  The use case I'm dealing with involves a set of points that can be extended to dynamically.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your time and help.
> 
> Bob
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