[vtk-developers] [vtkusers] Old (VTK5) code on "official" help page

[Bill Lorensen]

Chris,

I hope you can leave the current new vtk wiki examples where they are
during the redesign. The nighty scripts scrape the wiki and can be
sensitive to changes.

Thanks,

Bill

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Christopher Mullins
<christopher.mullins at kitware.com> wrote:
> I think it should probably be removed.  The sphere example is here [1] and
> the Quadric example is here [2].
>
> I'll contact the website maintainers.
>
>  The wiki example looks a little different, but you can get the same figure
> displayed in the Quadric example in [2] by uncommenting the "Other()"
> function, uncommenting these lines
>
> // Create five surfaces F(x,y,z) = constant between range specified
>   /*
>   vtkContourFilter *contours = vtkContourFilter::New();
>   contours->SetInput(sample->GetOutput());
>   contours->GenerateValues(5, 0.0, 1.2);
>   */
>
>
>
> and commenting these lines
>
> double xmin = -10, xmax=11, ymin=-10, ymax=10, zmin=-10, zmax=10;
>   sample->SetModelBounds(xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, zmin, zmax);
>
>
> in PlotFunction().
>
> We are in the middle of a redesign of the website, where we hope to make the
> wiki more prominent, but in the meantime I think it's safe to replace this
> link with a link to the Examples page.
>
> [1] http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/GeometricObjects/Sphere
> [2]
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Visualization/DisplayQuadraticSurfaces
>
>
> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 8:20 AM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> A user recently pointed out that the code here:
>>
>> http://www.vtk.org/VTK/help/examplecode.html
>>
>> is for VTK5 only. Can someone update this? Or better yet, just remove it
>> in favor of pointing at a publicly editable page so it can be maintained by
>> the community? (Perhaps migrate the info on this page to a wiki page?)
>>
>> David
>>
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