[vtkusers] SelectEnclosedMesh with VTK possible?

[Bill Lorensen]

If you have a point that lies inside the mesh that you want, then you
could modify this example:
http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/PolyData/ExtractOutsideSurface
and start the ray at that point and shoot it out.

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Roman Grothausmann
<roman.grothausmann at helmholtz-berlin.de> wrote:
> Dear mailing list members,
>
>
> We are looking for a way to get the part of a polydata mesh that resides
> within another (closed) polydata mesh (or the outside part).
> Is there some kind of SelectEnclosedMesh filter in VTK?
> If not, how can we delete the part of the polydata mesh with the array
> result from SelectEnclosedPoints? (Eg. deleting all Verts and connected
> Faces for the points lying outside)
>
> Any help or hints on this are very much appreciated
> Roman
>
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