Reading a binary 3D thresholded data set

[Lisa Sobierajski Avila]

Hello Steve,

Try looking at vtkSLCReader - it reads a run-length encoded 3D array of
bytes from disk.

Lisa

At 03:35 PM 6/21/99 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
>I have a program (written in C) that reads a specialized CT file and
>returns a data array which represents the 3D thresholded data (in order
>of dimension X, then Y, then Z), and the dimensions in XYZ of the 3D
>image.
>
>I'm trying to use the examples in the book to write my own C++ reader of
>the data, but I'm having problems because the examples are focussed more
>at reading multiple 'slices' from MR or CT.  In my case, all the 3D data
>is contained in the data array returned from my C program (for example,
>a data file with a volume of 10x10x10 read with my C program would
>return an array of length 1000, and the dimensions 10,10,10).
>
>Before I begin to attempt to create my own reader to get my data into a
>visualization stream (incorporating my C program), I wanted to see if
>I'm 'on the right track' by using the class vtkVolumeReader as a base. 
>If anybody has any suggestions for an appropriate base class that I
>should use for my particular data, or an example that would be useful
>for writing my first own VTKreader, that would be great.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Steve
>
>
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