[vtkusers] Fwd: vtkTubeFilter Side/Border Thickness

[Jérôme]

[I forward to the mailing list]

You are right: I didn't implement any CellData management. PointData
are managed by the internal vtkTubeFilters.
What do you think is the better CellData to add to the output?

Another thing is that the cell points (triangles) are ordered in the
same way for both extremities. Thus the cell normals should have
the same orientation: for one of the two cappings, normal will point
inside the caneloni. Maybe lightnings are mistaken because of that.

I will give a look.
Jerome

2010/4/12 Fauze Polpeta <fauze.polpeta at gmail.com>

> Indeed, I think it is originally black. (not becomes).
>
> So when angle of vision is perpendicular to the ring, you just see the
> black capping.
>
> Sorry if this caused a misunderstanding.
>
> Fauze
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Fauze Polpeta <fauze.polpeta at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi;
> >
> > Quite nice filter Jérôme.
> >
> > One thing I noticed is => the capping you do "manually" does not
> > provide the same result as the capping implemented in the ordinary
> > vtkTubeFilter. When the camera is positioned in a way that the ring is
> > perpendicular to our angle of vision, the capping surface of the ring
> > becomes black.
> >
> > Is there a way to make the capping surface of your filter to inherit
> > the color that is set by means of the actor that the filter is
> > mapped/connected to? (i.e. ringActor->GetProperty()->SetColor)
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Fauze
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Jérôme <jerome.velut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I updated the licence (BSD) and commented the filter. You will
> >> find it here:
> >> http://github.com/jeromevelut/
> >>
> >> The 'vtkKinship' git repo is what interests you: get it, compile it
> >> with CMake. The filter vtkThickTubeFilter produces the latter
> >> screenshot.
> >>
> >> It is simply based on 2 vtkTubeFilters and a custom capping. So
> >> it takes as input any polydata, assuming they have polylines.
> >> It means that vtkLineSource is suitable for this filter. I tried with
> >> vtkSplineSource under ParaView and created funny macaroni !
> >>
> >> Feel free to ask any questions regarding that filter/repo
> >>
> >> Jerome
> >>
> >> 2010/4/10 Fauze Polpeta <fauze.polpeta at gmail.com>
> >>>
> >>> Hi Jérôme
> >>>
> >>> This is exactly what I'm looking for. Please, let me know when
> >>> available and how to download.
> >>>
> >>> Was this pipe built from a vtkLineSource? If not, would I still be
> >>> able to positioning it by relying on the coordinates of two 3D points?
> >>> Or do I need to use vtkTransform?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for your courtesy
> >>>
> >>> Fauze
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:20 PM, David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com<daviddoria%2Bvtk at gmail.com>
> >
> >>> wrote:
> >>> > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Jérôme <jerome.velut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> >> Hi,
> >>> >>
> >>> >> I attached a screenshot of a filter of mine that builds what I think
> >>> >> you are
> >>> >> looking for... If this is what you, just tell me: I just have to put
> >>> >> some
> >>> >> licence info
> >>> >> in my github lib, then you can get it.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> HTH
> >>> >> Jerome
> >>> >
> >>> > That is definitely what he was looking for. Jermoe - you should
> >>> > definitely send it to the devel list and get it added to VTK.
> >>> >
> >>> > Thanks,
> >>> >
> >>> > David
> >>> >
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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