texture from probe

[Kenneth Wang]

Hi,

I'm trying to use the result obtained with vtkProbeFilter as a texture
map.  What I'd like to do is something like this:


   vtkPlaneSource      vtkTransform
(hi res for sampling)     |
         |                +---------------------------------+
         V                V                                 |
     vtkTransformPolyDataFilter                             |
                 |                                          |
                 V                                          |
 (data)---> vtkProbeFilter             vtkPlaneSource       |
                 |                (single quad for vis)     |
                 |                          |               |
                 V                          V               V
       vtkCastToConcrete (*)           vtkTransformPolyDataFilter
                 |                                 |
                 V                                 V
             vtkTexture                  vtkTextureMapToPlane
                 |                                 |
                 |                                 V
                 |                         vtkCastToConcrete
                 +-------+                         |
                         |          +--------------+
                         V          V
         lut--------> vtkPolyDataMapper
                              |
                              V
                           vtkActor


But, as you can see, this is problematic because the (*)'d cast to
concrete can not produce the structured points that we require for
textures.  While I understand that vtkPlaneSource is a poly data
source, I'm wondering if there is an easy way to get
vtkStructuredPoints from this probe since vtkPlaneSource produces an
array of points.

What I'm trying to do right now is to take the poly data output of the
probe filter (i.e. via cast to concrete) and then copy scalar data
from the probe over to a vtkStructuredPoints that I build from
scratch.  However, this feels like a definite kludge, and I'm not even
sure it will work.  Does anyone has any advice?

Thanks,
Ken Wang




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Kenneth C. Wang			E-mail: kenwang at stanford.edu
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Stanford University		Fax:    (650) 725-7731
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