Volume Rendering

[Lisa Sobierajski Avila]

<x-flowed>Hello Ahmed,

Since vtkPolyData is only surface data, it cannot be directly volume 
rendered. It is possible to pass the polydata through an implicit modelling 
step to convert it to a volume.

Lisa


At 10:23 PM 9/4/99 +0300, AHMED MAHMOUD wrote:
>Hello ,
>In the VTK manual there is an example to make volume rendering using
>vtkStructuredPoints an an input.
>Does VTK support a way to do volume rendering using a vtkPolyData
>as an input ??
>Thank you.
>
>
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