[vtkusers] VTK File Writing

[Alex Southern]

Hmmm,

What do you mean by convex? The geometry has no curves in it. Its just a 
6 sided polygon.

I must be missing something... please explain.

Thanks
Alex

On 11.8.2010 15:33, Sebastien Jourdain wrote:
> A ploygon cell in VTK can not be convex. So you will have to split it
> in two cells.
> And I don't know if there is an automatic way to do it by using a
> given filter in VTK and writing the file again.
>
> Seb
>
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Alex Southern<aps at tml.hut.fi>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> Could you guys take a look at this vtk file I wrote, can you see anything
>> wrong with it? I can't, but if you take a look at the JPG of paraview
>> screenshots, you will see that the single polygon looks fine in wire frame
>> mode but has some weird error when viewed as a surface, this is happening
>> with a few files I have written, but the is the most basic geometry it
>> occurs with.
>>
>> JPG at http://www.tml.tkk.fi/~aps/<http://www.tml.tkk.fi/%7Eaps/>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Alex
>>
>> # vtk DataFile Version 3.0
>> VTK File Exmaple
>> ASCII
>> DATASET POLYDATA
>> POINTS 6 float
>> 0.0 81.8897637795276 0.0
>> 43.7007874015748 81.8897637795276 0.0
>> 43.7007874015748 150.748031496063 0.0
>> 94.9606299212598 150.748031496063 0.0
>> 94.9606299212598 0.0 0.0
>> 0.0 0.0 0.0
>> POLYGONS 1 7
>> 6 0 1 2 3 4 5
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