[vtkusers] Glyphs and cutting planes

[Bill Lorensen]

Look at graphics/examplesTcl/capSphere.tcl

Bill

At 03:13 PM 8/3/00 -0500, jnorris at uiuc.edu wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>In my visualization package, one of the things a user can do is render a
>sphere at each point in the dataset (or a subset of them), with the color
>and/or radius dependent on the scalar value at that point; I use vtkGlyph3D
>to do this.  The user can also use clipping planes; I use a string of
>vtkClipPolyData filters to do this.  When one of the spheres is partially
>clipped, you can see inside it.  What I'd like to do is to be able to cap
>the clipped spheres, but I can't think of a way to do it.  Is it possible?
>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>John
>-- 
>John Norris
>Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets
>jnorris at uiuc.edu
>http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/jnorris