[vtkusers] Ray Casters and Perspective View Rays

[Lisa S. Avila]

Hello Wes,

You should be able to directly compute anything you were accessing from the 
view rays object. What specifically are you trying to determine? (I am not 
sure what you mean by "range and angle of incidence data")

Lisa



  At 11:12 AM 12/26/2001, Turner, Wesley D (CRD) wrote:
>Lisa,
>
>In some of the code I use, there are several modules which use the 
>obsolete "vtkRayCaster" and
>"vtkViewRays".  In particular, I use a routine which calculates
>range and angle of incidence data based on the sequence of calls
>vtkOpenGLRendererInstance->GetRayCaster()->GetPerspectiveViewRays().  You 
>removed these
>modules from the VTK repository and seem to have moved their functionality 
>into other places.  Is
>there a set of replacement calls?  Can these modules be moved
>back into the repository?
>
>Thank you in advance for your help,
>
>- Wes Turner
>
>
>
>  <<Turner, Wesley D (CRD).vcf>>
>
>
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