[vtkusers] streaming vtkMarchingCubes?

[Dominik Szczerba]

Any update on this issue anyone?
thanks, Dominik

Dominik Szczerba wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 19:29 +0200, Dominik Szczerba wrote:
>> On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 12:35 -0400, Bill Lorensen wrote:
>>> I am surprised at this. vtkMarchingCubes should produce manifold and
>>> oriented surfaces. There should be no duplicate points.
>>> vtkMarchingCubes can produce multiple, topologically disconnected
>>> surfaces. vtkDiscreteMarchingCubes can (and should) produce
>>> geometrically continuous but topologically disconnected surafces.
>>>
>>> Can you provide a test dataset that reproduces the problem?
>>>
>> I hanged a small sample on:
>>
>> http://otoro.itis.ethz.ch/~dominik/tmp/test.vtk
>>
>> I got this while segmenting a smooth scalar field on a (Windows virtual)
> 
> not segmenting but running vtkMarchingCubes on a smooth scalar field -
> sorry. -- Dominik
> 
>> machine with very little memory. I do not get this on a (linux real)
>> machine with lots of memory.
>>
>> Running connectivity filter you will notice a few disconnected regions.
>> It goes away after merging coincident points (and the number of points
>> is reduced indicating degenerate original points).
>>
>> I just need to get a warning when the output is in such condition to not
>> have to merge points by default, which degrades performance.
>>
>> -- Dominik
>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Dominik Szczerba<dominik at itis.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>>> I have experimentally found out that vtkMarchingCubes can generate
>>>> geometrically continuous but topologically disconnected isosurfaces,
>>>> i.e. the isosurface is cut into stripes along one axis with duplicate
>>>> points on the edges. How do I get a control of this behavior,
>>>> especially, to know if there will be disconnected stripes so I should
>>>> merge the points (I need topological consistency)?
>>>>
>>>> -- Dominik
>>>>
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