[vtkusers] How to change vtkImageData scalar type?

[Francois Bertel]

Hi,

I just added a warning to the documentation of vtkImageCast to prefer
the use of vtkImageShiftScale instead.

Regards.

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Preeti Bindu <preetibindu at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had tried vtkImageCast but I guess its output was not compatible to my
> requirement and so used the shiftScale and got things working. :)
>
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Jothy <jothybasu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't think shift will do that, instead that's for translation I think.
>> I used vtkImageCast and I worked.
>>
>> Of course, you can do that with vtkImageShiftScale!
>>
>> Jothy
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Preeti Bindu <preetibindu at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Use vtkImageShiftScale to shift your data from signed to unsigned.
>>>
>>> Hope it helps,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Jothy <jothybasu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Used vtkImageCast.
>>>>
>>>> jothy
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Jothy <jothybasu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to volume render a vtkImageData, but it throws an error
>>>>> stating only unsigned char/unsigned short can be rendered not float.
>>>>>
>>>>> How to convert the data type?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Jothy
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Preeti Bindu
>>>
>>
>
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