[vtkusers] Bug in vtkPolyDataToImageStencil?

[Joel Schaerer]

Hi all,

After a lot of careful testing, I think I may have found a better solution
to this long standing problem. Long story short, the solution is to set the
tolerance of the vtkPolyDataToImageStencil object to 0:

sts->SetTolerance(0);

So far as far as I'm concerned the problem is entirely solved, and doesn't
require the extrude->SetVector(0.001,0.001,3) hack anymore.

Here is a link to the old discussion, for anyone interested:
http://www.nabble.com/Bug-in-vtkPolyDataToImageStencil--td23368312.html

joel



Joel Schaerer wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Following the advice people have given me in 
> http://www.nabble.com/Creating-a-3D-surface-mesh-from-a-stack-of-contours-td23293256.html
> this  thread, I'm trying to create a 3D mesh from a stack of contours
> using vtkLinearExtrusionFilter, vtkPolyDataToImageStencil and
> vtkMarchingCubes.
> 
> It all seems to work quite well except for a very annoying bug, which is
> that there are spurious white lines in the output of the binarizer.
> Minimal code showing the problem with sample input and output data, as
> well as a screenshot of the problem can be found here:
> 
> http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/~schaerer/binarizer_bug.tar.bz2
> 
> The input are a polydata containing a closed polyline, and an empty image
> to get the required spacing, origin, etc. for the output.
> 
> Is this a bug in vtk? Or am I missing something?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> joel
> 
> 
> PS: Here is the sample code:
> 
> #include <iostream>
> #include <sstream>
> #include <cassert>
> #include <set>
> #include <vtkPolyDataWriter.h>
> #include <vtkPolyData.h>
> #include <vtkLinearExtrusionFilter.h>
> #include <vtkMetaImageWriter.h>
> #include <vtkMetaImageReader.h>
> #include <vtkImageData.h>
> #include <vtkPolyDataToImageStencil.h>
> #include <vtkPolyDataReader.h>
> #include <vtkImageStencil.h>
> #include <vtkSmartPointer.h>
> 
> 
> 
> int main(int argc,char * argv[])
> {
>     vtkSmartPointer<vtkMetaImageReader>
> imread=vtkSmartPointer<vtkMetaImageReader>::New();
>     imread->SetFileName("input.mhd");
>     imread->Update();
> 
>     vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataReader>
> contour_reader=vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataReader>::New();
>     contour_reader->SetFileName("input_contour.vtk");
>     contour_reader->Update();
> 
>     vtkLinearExtrusionFilter * extrude=vtkLinearExtrusionFilter::New();
>     extrude->SetInput(contour_reader->GetOutput());
>     extrude->SetVector(0, 0, 3);  //3 is the Z spacing between contours
>     //extrude->CappingOn(); //doesn't seem to be doing anything
>     extrude->Update();
> 
>     vtkPolyDataToImageStencil* sts=vtkPolyDataToImageStencil::New();
>     vtkImageStencil* stencil=vtkImageStencil::New();
>     sts->SetInput(extrude->GetOutput());
>     sts->SetInformationInput(imread->GetOutput());
>     sts->Update();
>     stencil->SetStencil(sts->GetOutput());
>     stencil->SetInput(imread->GetOutput());
> 
>     vtkSmartPointer<vtkMetaImageWriter>
> binary_writer=vtkSmartPointer<vtkMetaImageWriter>::New();
>     binary_writer->SetInput(stencil->GetOutput());
>     binary_writer->SetFileName("binary_output.mhd");
>     binary_writer->Write();
> 
>     extrude->Delete();
>     sts->Delete();
>     stencil->Delete();
> 
>     return 0;
> }
> 
> 

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