[vtkusers] Clipping uniform rectilinear grid without going to unstructured grid

Dominik Szczerba dominik at itis.ethz.ch
Wed Jul 13 16:44:08 EDT 2011


Have you tried the extract VOI filter?

Dominik

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Tijmen Klein <T.R.Klein at student.rug.nl> wrote:
> I have a volume that I currently render using the GPU-based volume renderer.
> Now I want to clip (using a plane) this volume, and render the output (again
> using the CPU-based volume renderer). However, the problem is that the
> clipping transforms the data into a unstructured grid, which limits me to
> using a CPU based renderer.
> Is it possible to use a clipping algorithm that outputs a rectilinear grid?
> I know that vtkClipPolyData will create new cells, but I'm not interested in
> that. Is this possible?
> Cheers,
> Tijmen
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