[vtkusers] vtkPolyDataNormals: normals pointing in the wrong direction

David Doria daviddoria at gmail.com
Sun Jul 24 09:25:26 EDT 2011


2011/7/24 Miguel Sotaquirá <msotaquira at gmail.com>:
> Hi David!
> I'm not sure if the approach you suggested is adequate for my problem, since
> vtkPointSetNormalEstimation has no concept of inside/outside object (which
> in my case is necessary for computing curvatures)...
> I don't know if vtkPointSetNormalOrientation in your code might help in this
> case?
> Thanks,
> Miguel

Yes, vtkPointSetNormalOrientation takes un-oriented normals and
attempts to consistently orient them.

David



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