Cast to abstract, does it exist?

[Bill Lorensen]

Marcela,

vtkImageReslice in contrib will do the trick.

http://vtk.scorec.rpi.edu/Nightly/Doc/manhtml/vtkImageReslice.html

Bill

At 11:04 AM 12/13/99 +0100, Marcela HERNANDEZ wrote:
>Hello,
>
>   I am currently using the following method to extract an arbitrary
>cutting plane from a volume:
>
>vtkPlane cutPlane
>     cutPlane SetOrigin $xO $yO $zO
>     cutPlane SetNormal $xN $yN $zN
>
>   vtkCutter planeCut
>     planeCut SetInput [readerSP GetOutput]
>     planeCut SetCutFunction cutPlane
>
>My problem is the following:
>
>I would like to apply a filter to the image corresponding to the
>extracted plan, but the vtkCutter filter generates vtkPolyData (concrete
>type) for output and cannot be connected to a filter, like
>vtkImageGradient or vtkImageSobel2D, because these filters require an
>abstract type as input (vtkImageCache or vtkStructuredPoints).
>
>Does anybody know how could I recover this image in a vtkImageCache or
>vtkStructuredPoints object?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Marcela
>
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