[vtkusers] Contours & Paraview/VTK

[Berk Geveci]

It's magic :-)

ParaView uses patented classes to isosurface structured datasets.
vtkKitwareContourFilter figures out which filter is the fastest and
uses that one.


On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:26:02 -0600, Randall Hand <randall.hand at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a VTK Datafile (512x128x128) that I can load into paraview &
> use the "Contour" filter to extract an isosurface, in about 10-15
> seconds.
> 
> In VTK, however, if I use a vtkDataSetReader & a vtkContourFilter to
> do the same thing, it takes approximately 2 minutes.  How does
> paraview do this so fast?
> --
> Randall Hand
> http://www.yeraze.com
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