[vtkusers] Addition to vtkDecimatePro; vtkTriangleFilter name

[Bill Lorensen]

David,

Changing the names of filters is not friendly to existing customers
that have invested large amounts of time and money in their
applications and products.

Bill

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 9:10 AM, David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Instead of throwing this warning:
> DecimatePro does not accept polygons that are not triangles.
>
> would it make sense to have DecimatePro go ahead and triangulate the
> input polygons if necessary? It seems to add an extra step in code as
> well as in Paraview - the user must add a TriangleFilter and then a
> Decimate filter in order to accomplish a single "concept" of
> decimation.
>
> Also, does anyone else think it should be called vtkTriangulateFilter
> instead of vtkTriangleFilter? In Paraview the filter has been named
> Triangulate and I had to go into the Paraview xml to find that it was
> actually calling vtkTriangleFilter because I couldn't find
> vtkTriangulateFilter.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
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