[vtkusers] How to make this output near to the actual appearence

[Bill Lorensen]

A surface mesh is composed of triangles. Marching Cubes produces a
surface mesh of triangle. However, I do not believe a Marching Cubes
surface is suitable for use in a finite element analysis because of
mesh quality issues. I do not know of a vtk filter can can process an
image volume and produce a suitable surface mesh for finite element
processing.

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Ali Habib <ali.mahmoud.habib at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Bill,
>
> I want to create surface mesh for Finite elment analysis , I just need the
> mesh and it become near to its shape I attached the code at my previous
> mail
>
> Best regards
>
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> What is the problem you are trying to solve? We can't tell from an
>> image. Are your trying to generate surface meshes? Are you trying to
>> generate tetrahedrons? If tetrahedrons, what is the purpose of the
>> generated model? If it is for finite element analysis, then I don't
>> believe that vtk can generate finite element models that are suitable
>> for analysis. (although I could be wrong here).
>>
>> And please, stop reposting the same question over and over and over
>> and over and over with a different subject line.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Ali Habib <ali.mahmoud.habib at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Dear All,
>> >
>> > I successfuly start building a mesh , what shall I do to make the
>> > output(attached) near to the image at this link
>> > http://www.iue.tuwien.ac.at/phd/fleischmann/img346.gif
>> >
>> > I used after VtkMarchingCube
>> >
>> >             vtkTriangleFilter *VTF =  vtkTriangleFilter::New();
>> >             VTF->SetInput(skinExtractor->GetOutput());
>> >             vtkQuadricClustering *VQDC =  vtkQuadricClustering::New();
>> >             VQDC->SetNumberOfXDivisions(32);
>> >             VQDC->SetNumberOfYDivisions(32);
>> >             VQDC->SetNumberOfZDivisions(32);
>> >             VQDC->SetInput(VTF->GetOutput());
>> > Any advice please
>> >
>> >
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