[vtkusers] Converting a Structured Points File to an Unstructured Points/Grid File

[Eric E. Monson]

Hey Theodore,

One quick way might be to send the output of the reader right into a vtkThreshold filter (that is set with a threshold range which will pass all of your data). I've never tried it with a vtkStructuredPoints, but it works well for vtkImageData, and I think it should work in your case.

There are test code samples linked off of the Doxygen page:

http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkThreshold.html

Or, there is at least this one (and maybe more) on the VTK examples Wiki:

http://www.itk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/ThresholdingCells

(There's also a vtkThresholdPoints filter that outputs vtkPolyData)

-Eric

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Eric E Monson
Duke Visualization Technology Group


On May 7, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Jack wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have a file with a dataset of structured points. I'd like to convert this to a dataset of unstructured points and/or unstructured grid. How can I do this?
> 
> So far, this is what I have: 
> 
> int main()
> {
> 	//get all data from the file
> 	vtkSmartPointer< vtkStructuredPointsReader> reader = vtkSmartPointer< vtkStructuredPointsReader>:: New();
> 
> 	reader->SetFileName("geometry. vtk");
> 	reader->Update();
> 
> 	vtkStructuredPoints* structuredPoints = reader->GetOutput();
> 
> 	//get the number of points the file contains
>  	vtkIdType numPoints = structuredPoints-> GetNumberOfPoints();
>  
> 	std::cout << "There are " << numPoints << " points." << std::endl;
> 
> 	vtkSmartPointer< vtkUnstructuredGrid> unstructuredGrid = vtkSmartPointer< vtkUnstructuredGrid>::New();
> 
> }
> 
> It's incomplete and I'm not sure how to proceed.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Theodore
> 
> 
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