[vtkusers] Argh ~~ FindCell

[John Biddiscombe]

>Thank you to Berk and Amy for your helpful advice.  I am currently using the
>findcell and it seems that this function does not always work on my mesh.
>Is there a method that locates a cell based on the shortest distance between
>a point and the plane created by the vertices of that cell?

If you create cell normals for the mesh and then did a dot product between 
a test point and the normals, you ought to get the distance. You could then 
search for the minimum resulting scalar...the Id would correspond to the 
cell...

thinking aloud...

JB