[vtkusers] Multiple Input Filter Examples

[Dominik Szczerba]

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Maybe I am jumping into the middle of a conversation with not enough
understanding, but I was considering to rebuild my readers the same way
too. But is it possible this way to load only requested timesteps from
file or would the whole (large) transient dataset be attempted to load
into memory? [DSZ]

Michael Jackson wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions. I also went back and took a look at 2 of  
> the Kitware Quarterly editions that talk about composite data sets  
> (Oct 2006 and April 2008)
> <href="http://www.kitware.com/products/thesource/apr2008.html">
> <href="http://www.kitware.com/products/thesource/oct2006.html">
> 
> I think I am going to rewrite my current reader to output a MultiBlock  
> data set and then have my subsequent filters take a MultiBlock as  
> input which I think will more elegantly solve my problems.
> 
> Again, thanks for all the suggestions.
> --
> Mike Jackson <www.bluequartz.net>
> 
> On Jan 15, 2010, at 1:05 PM, Bryn Lloyd wrote:
> 
>> For instance the vtkSmoothPolyDataFilter
>>
>> http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkSmoothPolyDataFilter.html
>>
>>
>> I takes an optional second input (used for constrained surface  
>> smoothing).
>>
>>
>> Michael Jackson wrote:
>>> Are there any examples of filters that take multiple inputs? I am  
>>> trying to design a filter which I _think_ will require multiple  
>>> inputs but I wanted to look at some existing code first before I  
>>> make a design choice.
>>> Thanks
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>> -- 
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>> Bryn Lloyd
>> Computer Vision Laboratory
>> ETH Zürich, Sternwartstrasse 7, ETF C110
>> CH - 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
>> Tel: +41 44 63 26668
>> Fax: +41 44 63 21199
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