[vtk-developers] vtkGeometryFilter and vtkUnstructuredGridBase

[Rostislav Khlebnikov]

Thanks for clearing that up, Dave.

I will take a look at the filters that I need and share my changes if I 
do any.

Rostislav.

On 20/05/2015 14:44, David Lonie wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Rostislav Khlebnikov 
> <rostislav.khlebnikov at kcl.ac.uk 
> <mailto:rostislav.khlebnikov at kcl.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Dear VTK developers,
>
>     I have come across an issue when using vtkGeometryFilter on an
>     adaptor of my dataset which uses vtkUnstructuredGridBase.
>     Apparently, the vtkGeometryFilter has not been adapted to use the
>     vtkUnstructuredGridBase interface and simply uses a
>     static_cast<vtkUnstructuredGrid *> in its
>     UnstructuredGridExecute() method. Was this class overlooked during
>     the transition to vtkUnstructuredGridBase? For now I can probably
>     use the vtkDataSetSurfaceFilter filter as a workaround, but I
>     assume that this is a bug and it should probably be fixed at some
>     point
>
>
> At this point, there are a lot of filters that won't work with the 
> vtkUnstructuredGridBase and vtkMappedDataArray interfaces. These are 
> newer, experimental features that are currently only used in a handful 
> of applications. If you end up needing to adapt any filters, etc to 
> use them, consider sharing the modifications on gitlab so we can 
> improve support.
>
> More info: http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/InSituDataStructures
>
> Dave

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