[vtk-developers] vtkBioEngCollosionDetection

[Bill Lorensen]

The Slicer folks have been using this code for a while. Perhaps they will
comment.

 Vtks intersection code is not robust enough for collision detection.

On Thu, May 31, 2018, 1:24 PM Ronald Römer <rroemer at gmail.com> wrote:

> My library vtkbool has something like this too, but it is optimized for
> small cuts and it works also for polygons, not just triangles. The output
> is a set of lines with corresponding cell id's. Also the
> vtkIntersectionPolyDataFilter does nearly the same thing and it already
> exists in VTK. So why do you want to do this?
>
> Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> schrieb am Do., 31. Mai 2018,
> 21:36:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I've started moving vtkBioEngCollosionDetection into vtk.
>>  SlicerRT uses it already. Other users have been asking for collision
>> detection functionality.
>>
>> There are 2 ways to approach this:
>>
>> 1) Move into an existing VTK module, e..g. Filter/Modeling as
>> vtkCollosionDetection
>>
>> 2) Make it a remote module vtkBioEngCollosionDetection
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Bill
>>
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