[vtkusers] Creating a 3D surface mesh from a stack of contours

Bryn Lloyd blloyd at vision.ee.ethz.ch
Wed Apr 29 06:11:50 EDT 2009


Hi Joel,

I guess you want to run an inside/outside test with the polylines. I 
would suggest you have look at this post:

http://www.nabble.com/extracting-binary-label-image-from-poly-data-contour-td22079030.html


Cheers
Bryn




Joel Schaerer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to create a 3D surface mesh from a stack of 2D contours created
> from a semi-manual contouring platform I have no control on. For now I have
> succesfully converted the contours to vtk polylines. My idea is to binarize
> the the polylines, and to run a marching cubes on the resulting binary
> volume.
> 
> Unfortunately, vtkPolyDataToImageStencil doesn't work for polylines. So
> before I start coding a polyline binarizer, would anyone have a better idea,
> or such a binarizer in stock? (the code will be integrated into the
> open-source 4D viewer vv)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> joel


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