[vtkusers] Correct approach for assembly of polylines?

[Amy Henderson]

At 11:07 AM 4/14/2004, jarv0075 wrote:
>
>I'm currently trying to reassemble some polylines that vtk broke up into
>several different cells...  My current approach is to use nested loops to
>match up the end points.
>
>Is there a better way to do this?

Try passing the output of vtkCutter through vtkStripper.  The online 
documentation for that class is here:
http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkStripper.html

- Amy

>This is using the vtkcutter output which then gives many different
>polylines, some closed, some not, so I can't just plug it into a polyline
>loop.
>
>Is there a way to use a polyline loop over for each set of polylines with
>matching end points and keep adding the output to a polydata set?
>
>I'm still very much a VTK newbie and always am unsure whether a certain
>operation is atomic or if it's going to do some big propagation through the
>entire pipeline.
>
>Thanks
>
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