[vtkusers] Modifying the vtkDataSet Object

[Jérôme]

Hi,
if your data are 2D grids, such as images, you can try to convert your
DataSet into ImageData and then pass them through vtkImageAppend by setting
the AppendAxis to 2 (z-axis).

HTH
Jerome

2009/12/16 David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com<daviddoria%2Bvtk at gmail.com>
>

> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Naveen <a1naveen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am having some trouble modifying vtkDataSet object and would like to
> know
> > how to proceed with the task. I have an object of vtkDataset having 97665
> > POINT_DATA values (2D) and the dimensions as (384, 256). Now we want to
> > convert this into 3D, so i have to add an additional Z coordinate to it.
> In
> > order to do that, I want to add atleast 1 more layer on Z axis i.e add
> > 384*256 more POINT_DATA values to the existing vtkDataSet object. How can
> I
> > do this modification?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Naveen
>
> Why are you using a vtkDataSet? Why don't you use one of the
> subclasses of vtkPointSet, like vtkPolyData?
>
> Here is the class hierarchy:
> http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkDataSet.html
>
> I guess I don't follow what you are trying to do..?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
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