[vtkusers] Reading standard image types

[Bill Lorensen]

David,

ITK has a very nice IO factory mechanism and the itk image reader
determines at run-time what io reader to use. It can also load shared
libraries to add new types.

It would be nice to have similar functionality in vtk, but it would be
a lot of work to provide a solution as flexible as itk's.

There is probably a quick and dirty way to do it in vtk, but it would
be quick and dirty... I doubt if a quick and dirty solution will get
into VTK.

Bill


On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 1:09 PM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a filter that will read png, jpg, etc images based on their
> file extension (that is, without having to explicitly declare a
> vtkJPEGReader or vtkPNGReader, etc)? If not, would you use it if it
> existed?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
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