[vtkusers] Volume data from application memory

[Wesley Smith]

thanks,
precisely what I was looking for.
wes

On Jan 23, 2008 9:40 PM, jonathan grimm <flymolo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Take a look at vtkImageImport.  It's designed to do what you want.
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> On Jan 23, 2008 6:17 PM, Wesley Smith <wesley.hoke at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> > I'm just starting out using VTK and have been trying to figure out how
> > to pass in volume data held in application memory (but not in any VTK
> > class) into the VTK rendering system.  From what I've seen, all of the
> > examples use "Readers" which only look for data from file.  Is there
> > no such class that I can pass say a pointer along with the memory
> > layout to?  To make things more concrete, I'm using a library to load
> > VASP files.  From these, I get a buffer of data about 85x54x44 of
> > scalar values.  What's the best methodology for getting this data into
> > VTK?  Perusing the web, I've only seen examples that require
> > subclassing a vtkReader of some sort.  Is this the only way?
> > (http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/drm/ExampleVolRender.cxx )
> >
> > thanks,
> > wes
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