[vtkusers] thresholding question

Bill Lorensen wlorens1 at nycap.rr.com
Mon Dec 11 19:59:32 EST 2000


Hopefully you have cvs...

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at visualizationtoolkit.org:/vtk/cvsroot login anonymous
CVS password: vtk
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at visualizationtoolkit.org:/vtk/cvsroot checkout vtkdata/pineRoot




At 11:36 AM 12/11/00 -0500, anast.jm at pg.com wrote:

>Bill, where can I find the pine_root data set. I've downloaded about every piece
>of vtk data I can find but no pine_root.....thanks, john
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>From: Bill Lorensen <wlorens1 at nycap.rr.com>@public.kitware.com on 12/06/2000
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>vtkSliceCubes processes 4 slices at a time.
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>See the example:
>patented/examplesTcl/genPineRoot.tcl
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>Bill
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>At 08:23 PM 12/5/00 -0800, Tao-Pak Chris Tsui wrote:
> >Greetings!
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> >I am looking at "threshold.tcl" as an example for my
> >application..  it works fine if the dataset I have is
> >not large..  what I have is about 100mb of CT data..
> >it's just too slow to read the entire 100mb of data
> >into memory (indeed seems impossible for my 128mb RAM)
> >each time when I alter the threshold value...
> >
> >is there any way to solve this problem?  is there
> >something like vtkMCubesReader to read 4 slices at a
> >time?  (vtkMCubesReader is giving polydata but
> >vtkThreshold is expecting some scalar values as
> >input.. )
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> >the data I really want to extract is some tiny steel
> >balls which has been implemented into a skull..  these
> >balls appear to be much brighter from the CT slices.
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> >is there any way to extract these tiny balls?  Thanks
> >so much!!
> >
> >Chris






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