[vtkusers] Worked around volume issues but is this a bug?

[Lisa Avila]

Hello Alex,

The volume mappers in VTK support only unsigned char and unsigned short data.


Lisa


At 04:45 PM 11/4/2002, Alex Lear wrote:
>I was previously having volume rendering problems because vtkScalars are no
>longer supported in VTK 4.0.  I switched to vtkFloatArray but the volumes
>flickered or did not show up at all.  I have since switched to
>vtkUnsignedCharArray because my old scalars where unsigned chars.  This type
>of data works :)  However, it would have been nice to use a float type this
>time around.
>
>Are float types not allowed for volume values, might there be something else
>I am doing wrong, or maybe a bug?
>
>For reference, I (basically) start with a 3d structured points and apply the
>scalar values to them, then input those to the volume mapper.
>
>Thanks,
>Alex Lear
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