[vtkusers] Using vtkContourFilter for Rendering a Point Cloud

[Cory Quammen]

Moritz,

You need to turn your point cloud into a scalar volume prior to
applying the vtkContourFilter. You could use one of several options:

vtkFastSplatter
vtkGaussianSplatter
vtkShepardMethod

Hope that helps,
Cory

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Moaix
<moritz.bernard.fricke at rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>
>  Dear all,
>
>  i have an Unstructured Grid of Points representing a Point Cloud. Each point
>  has a scalar value that is its energy.
>  I want to create isosurfaces in energy for the volume where this point cloud
>  is located. As i started using vtk just two weeks ago, i want to know how to
>  do that. I think, vtkContourFilter will do that but i don't know how to use
>  it.
>
>  Can anybody help me with my problem?
>
>  Thank you in advance,
>
>  Moritz
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Cory Quammen
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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