[vtkusers] Re: vtkFeatureEdges AND vtkPointLocator ...

[Sebastien Auclair]

I'll put that to my todo list !

I'll notify the list.
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Seb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Schroeder" <will.schroeder at kitware.com>
To: "Sebastien Auclair" <sxa at fluent.com>; <vtkusers at public.kitware.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 2:14 PM
Subject: [vtkusers] Re: vtkFeatureEdges AND vtkPointLocator ...


> Hi Sebastien-
>
> The algorithm could easily be written so that it does not need
> vtkPointLocator. The reason this was done was to squeeze down the size of
> the output. For example, say the input is a mesh with 10,000,000 points,
> and the output of (the current) vtkFeatureEdges is one line with two
> points. Without using the vtkPointLocator the output would still contain
> 10,000,000 points. (But because of reference counting maybe it doesn't
> matter because the points are not copied.) Anyway, it looks like it was
> somewhat of an arbitrary implementation decision. It would be quite easy
to
> rewrite the filter to not use a vtkPointLocator, or to add a flag to
> provide an option to the user.
>
> Are you going to take a crack at it :-) Please send the changes.
>
> Will
>
>
> At 01:58 PM 5/28/2003 -0400, Sebastien Auclair wrote:
> >Why does vtkFeatureEdges needs to merge points in the first place.
> >In our case, the dataset we display don't have duplicated points.
> >Is there a way to go around this merging stuff ?
> >
> >What appends if i use SetLocator( vtkPointLocator* locator) set with
> >Divisions  == 1x1x1 ?
> >
> >Thanks !
> >______________________________
> >Seb
>
>
>
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