[vtkusers] point cloud

Justace Clutter prophecy at corpranet.net
Mon Jan 5 02:22:12 EST 2004


I will post it when I get it finished, I think that I have post earlier
versions on the list already though.

Justace

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 09:47, Axel Steuwer wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i am working on the point cloud problem, too. could you make
> the code for what you are talking about below available, perhaps?
> 
> axel
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Justace Clutter <prophecy at corpranet.net>
> Date: Thu, January 1, 2004 12:04 pm
> To: VTK Users Mailing List <vtkusers at vtk.org>
> 
> Luke,
> 
> 	Sorry for the strange format of this email but well ya know...  Ok, So
> I had a similar problem.  I found a kind of solution by creating a
> vtkPolyData dataset and piped it through a vtkGlyph3D instance.  It
> seemed towork pretty good.  I set the glyph to a vertex and it worked
> very well, even for fairly large datasets.  the largest one that I had
> displayed was around 3.4 million points.
> 
> Justace
> 
> --> Old Email
> -----------------------------
>         Hi,
> 
>         I'd like to display a cloud of points.
> 
>         The only way I can think of doing it is to make an
>         vtkUnstructuredGrid
>         and to view an actor made from it with
>         SetRepresentationToPoints().
> 
>         but the grid is complete overkill - can't I make an actor out of
> vtkPoints in
>         some way?
> 
>         Or another way?
> 
>         thanks,
> 
> 
> 
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