[vtkusers] Flattening a surface

[Alexandre GOUAILLARD]

Hi fernando,  iryna,

We have just published code for parameterizations in the Insight-Journal.
http://hdl.handle.net/1926/1315

It provides many parameterizations flavors ( as opposed to the existing
filter that only provides conformal param).

It allows to parameterize 3D surface meshes of any genus (using a cutting
algorithm provided in a previous submission), as long as it is
simply-connected (one component).
http://hdl.handle.net/1926/306

Using the itkVTKPolyDataReader/Writer provided in the review directory of
ITK you can go back and forth between VTK and ITK.
http://www.itk.org/Doxygen34/html/classitk_1_1VTKPolyDataReader.html
http://www.itk.org/Doxygen34/html/classitk_1_1VTKPolyDataWriter.html

Don't hesitate to ask more questions on the mailing list if you have any,
and if you give those code a try, we would greatly appreciate if you could
take the time to write a review for it in the Insight-Journal (good or bad,
both are welcome ^___^ ).

Best, 

Alex Hanfei Gouaillard.
 

On 10/27/07 12:28 AM, "Fernando Amat" <famat at stanford.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I am pretty much new in VTK. I have surface encoded as triangulated. Is
> there any class in VTK that implements flattening algorithms? If the
> answer is yes, do they preserve distances, or angles?
> 
> Thanks,
> Fernando
> 
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