[vtkusers] Re: coloring objects

[Jean-Do Barnichon]

hi Debbie,
you should find some usefull information on a recent thread 
with subject "single actor with different cell-colors"
hth.
Jean-Do


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> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:22:39 +0000
> From: "debbie larson" <debbielarson_9 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [vtkusers] coloring objects
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> Hi,

> I am writing triangular PolyData representing cylinders, to a file using 
> vtkPolyDataWriter. The triangles are generated with vtkCylinderSource. These 
> cylinders belong to two different sets that I would like to distinguish with 
> two different colors. Is there a way I can assign a scalar to each set of 

> cylinders, save it to a file with vtkPolyDataWriter and retrieve the color 
> with vtkPolyDataReader?
> 
> Thanks

> deb