[vtkusers] Cell types

Gavin Tabor G.R.Tabor at exeter.ac.uk
Tue Jul 24 09:30:47 EDT 2001


Ah ... right, my mistake. Thanks.

The question does still remain. Is there a cell type with 7
vertices? If not, what should one do if one wants to visualise
data with 7-vertex cells in it?

Gavin

Amy Henderson wrote:
> 
> VTK_WEDGE has 6 vertices, not 7.
> 
> - Amy
> 
> At 01:52 PM 7/24/2001 +0100, Gavin Tabor wrote:
> >Dear All,
> >
> >I'm trying to import data from an unstructured CFD grid into
> >a vtkUnstructuredGrid. (Actually, its an update of a previous
> >routine which just worked on hex cells). As far as I can make
> >out, the following 3d cell types are supported :
> >
> >hex     = 8 vertices
> >wedge   = 7 vertices
> >pyramid = 5 vertices
> >tet     = 4 vertices
> >
> >What happened to prisms, ie. a cell with 6 vertices? Is there
> >a VTK_PRISM, or a vtkPrism class? I can't find one. If not, is
> >there a generic n-vertex cell available? I can't find that
> >either.
> >
> >Gavin
> >
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> >Dr. Gavin Tabor
> >School of Engineering and Computer Science
> >Department of Engineering
> >University of Exeter
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