[vtkusers] how to create a torus ?

John Biddiscombe jbiddiscombe at skippingmouse.co.uk
Tue Nov 5 07:55:53 EST 2002


vtkSuperquadric stuff has a torus option. See vtkTestCurvatures.tcl in the
nightlies for an example (do you need (almost) equal surface area facets or
something? "can't use vtkSphereSource")

PS. How's your moments based curvature class? I checked your web site the
other day but it has gone.

JB


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Ehrhardt" <ehrhardt at medinf.mu-luebeck.de>
To: "vtkusers" <vtkusers at public.kitware.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 10:19 AM
Subject: [vtkusers] how to create a torus ?


>
> Hi all,
>
> I want to create simple geometric objects.
>
> A torus, a sphere and a icosahedron.
>
> I don't want to create an image volume with the desired structure
> painted in, and
> than using MC !
> It is realy essential that the triangles of the created structure are
> uniform, as
> far as possible. Thats the reason, why I can't use vtkSphereSource.
>
> Can anyone tell me algorithms to create triangle models of such
> structures in
> different resolutions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jan
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