[vtk-developers] vtkExplicitCell

[Will Schroeder]

Scratching my head a little bit I think I know why that class was created.
There was a time when we were fooling around with making the NURBS, Bezier,
etc. basis a type of cell. The idea was that if you had thousands of spline
surfaces as in a CAD model you would explicitly instantiate these as cells,
with all the commensurate trim edges, knot points, weights, etc.

Currently I believe that there is a GSoC effort underway to introduce NURBS
into VTK (again). I haven't followed it closely but from what I understand
they are taking a different path.

However given that this class is not currently used, there's no reason not
to put it in the attic until a real reason for keeping it emerges.

W

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Will Schroeder <will.schroeder at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Bill I assume it's a leftover from some sort of sandbox experiment, so it
> makes sense to remove it unless there is a compelling application or
> integration hook, etc.
>
> I presume that you would also remove the (commented out) references in:
> ./Common/DataModel/Testing/Cxx/TestInterpolationDerivs.cxx
> ./Common/DataModel/Testing/Cxx/TestInterpolationFunctions.cxx
>
> W
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> vtkExplicitCell is not used nor tested anywhere in vtk.
>>
>> Can it be removed?
>>
>> Bill
>>
>
>
>
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