[vtkusers] Extracting dataset from actors

Chris Scharver scharver at evl.uic.edu
Thu Jan 22 10:30:43 EST 2004


On Jan 21, 2004, at 7:07 PM, jsundar at siue.edu wrote:

> Has anybody ever attempted extracting dataset from the actors.Is it 
> even
> possible?

Do you mean the visualization or the raw data itself? You can get some 
data by querying the vtkActor's vtkMapper. You can then in turn query 
the vtkMapper to get data such as vtkPolyData. What is it that you're 
trying to do?

Chris

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