[vtkusers] vtkPolyDataNormals: normals pointing in the wrong direction

Miguel Sotaquirá msotaquira at gmail.com
Sun Jul 24 13:07:27 EDT 2011


Yep, I've tried already with no success!
Miguel

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Jérôme <jerome.velut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Did you try to call ConsistencyOn( ), together with FlipNormals On/Off
> depending on how you want to define inside/outside ?
>
> HTH
> Jerome
>
> 2011/7/24 David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com>
>
>> 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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