[vtkusers] whether a point lies outside or inside a vtkBoxWidget

[Rashed Karim]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to do something very basic: I have a vtkBoxWidget in a scene,
and I am trying to check if a point x,y,z lies inside or outside the box.
>From what I understand a box is a convex space bounded by 6 planes, and the
GetPlanes( ) function of vtkBoxWidget returns the convex space bounded by
the 6 planes.

So if i do this:

double pos[3];
myBoxWidget->GetPlanes(myVtkPlanes);
double c = myVtkPlanes->FunctionValue(pos);

I was expecting c to be either +ve or -ve depending on whether a point
pos[3] is inside or outside the box, but that doesnt seem to be the case. Am
i doing something wrong?


Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
-- 

Rashed karim
PhD student
Imperial College London
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