[vtkusers] mesh to image conversion

[Toon Huysmans]

something like this should do the trick:

vtkImageData                       -- |
                                                | -->
vtkImageStencil   --> vtkImageData
vtkPolyDataToImageStencil   --|


Toon.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joshi, Pallavi" <pallavi.joshi at Vanderbilt.Edu>
To: "Toon Huysmans" <denhuys at hotmail.com>
Cc: <vtkusers at vtk.org>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 11:29 AM
Subject: [vtkusers] mesh to image conversion


> Hi,
> I need some help from you regarding this posting of yours. I have a
skull(i
> extract it by thresholding the bones of a CT volume) and then I convert it
to a
> polygonal mesh. I now want to paint the inside of this mesh into an 3D
image.
> Can you please tell how how to go about this ?
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank You,
> --Pallavi
>
>
> Quoting Toon Huysmans <denhuys at hotmail.com>:
>
> > Hi Raghu,
> >
> >     I once used
> > http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkPolyDataToImageStencil.html,
but
> > the input must be polygonal
> >     i think. It can be used to paint the inner of the polygonal dataset
into
> > an image(3D).
> >
> >     Maybe you could be a little more clear about your problem...
> >
> > Toon.
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Raghu Venkatram" <raghu.venkatram at gmail.com>
> > To: <vtkusers at vtk.org>
> > Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 7:06 PM
> > Subject: [vtkusers] mesh to image conversion
> >
> >
> > > hello VTK users,
> > >
> > > We have a biomechanical model of the brain represented as a set of
> > > points in 3d space, with x,y,z in millimeters. I would like to convert
> > > this to 3 orthogonal image views. I heard from Luis Ibanez, that VTK
> > > has some tools to rasterize, I would be glad if somebody could give me
> > > some pointers.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Raghu
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> Joshi, Pallavi
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