[vtkusers] Java Data streaming query

[Ian Grimstead]

Christopher M. Navarro wrote:
> One possibility is to construct part of the vtk pipeline on the server and 
> the latter half of the pipeline (mappers/actors) on the remote machine.  
> You can do the data loading/filtering/etc on the server side send the 
> polydata across the socket to the remote machine to visualize the results.  

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the feedback, it's an interesting notion (I was going to keep 
a copy on the "server", and maintain a duplicate on the "client"). Your 
approach should reduce the footprint.

But... how do you send the polydata across? Is there any support in VTK, 
or do I simply have to copy the polydata to a buffer, send the buffer & 
rebuild the data on the client?

(Spot the VTK newbie :-)

Ian


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