[vtkusers] Addition to vtkDecimatePro; vtkTriangleFilter name

[Bill Lorensen]

I think auto triangulating should be left to the user. For example, if
I want to decimate a 1,000,000 triangle model, I would not want the
filter to run a check first to see of every cell was a triangle.

As for aliasing a class, it can be done by making the new class a
subclass of the old class. But this clutters up the toolkit I think. I
bet we could pick better names for dozens of vtk classes.

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:09 PM, David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
> I figured that would be the case. Is there a reasonable way to make an
> "alias" class in cases like this? Something like have
> vtkTriangulateFilter simply call vtkTriangleFilter? This way it would
> be backwards compatible but also easier to find.
>
> What do you think about the auto-triangle-filtering of the input in DecimatePro?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
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