[vtkusers] David Doria's vtkPointSetNormalOrientation filter error

[David Doria]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:00 PM, paws <paws at op.pl> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I try to receive point’s normal orientation from unorganized points cloud.
> I've tried to use David Doria's vtkPointSetNormalEstimation and
> vtkPointSetNormalOrientation filters, but I received an error:
>
> "Unhandled exception at 0x75799617 in meshing.exe: Microsoft C++ exception:
> boost::exception_detail::clone_impl&lt;boost::exception_detail::error_info_injector&lt;boost::negative_edge&gt;
>> at memory location 0x0069f294"
>
> This error occurs while processing this part of
> "vtkPointSetNormalOrientation.cxx" code:
>
>  //find the minimum spanning tree on the Riemannian graph, starting from
> the highest point
>  vtkSmartPointer MSTFilter = vtkSmartPointer::New();
>  MSTFilter->SetOriginVertex(MaxZId);
>  MSTFilter->SetInput(RiemannianGraph);
>  MSTFilter->SetEdgeWeightArrayName("Weights");
>  MSTFilter->Update();
>
> Pipeline I use looks like this:
>
> I have unorganized points cloud in vtkPoints object:
>
> vtkSmartPointer points = vtkSmartPointer::New();
>
> ...
>
> vtkSmartPointer polydata = vtkSmartPointer::New();
> polydata->SetPoints(points);
> vtkSmartPointer NormalEstimation = vtkSmartPointer::New();
> NormalEstimation->SetInput(polydata);
> NormalEstimation->SetkNeighbors(10);
>
> vtkSmartPointer NormalOrientationFilter = vtkSmartPointer::New();
> NormalOrientationFilter->SetInputConnection(NormalEstimation->GetOutputPort());
> NormalOrientationFilter->SetKNearestNeighbors(10);
>
> vtkSmartPointer vertexFilter = vtkSmartPointer::New();
> vertexFilter->SetInputConnection(NormalOrientationFilter->GetOutputPort());
> vertexFilter->Update();
>
> polydata->ShallowCopy(vertexFilter->GetOutput());
>
>
> //----------------------------------
>
> Additional information:
>
> 1) This code without "vtkPointSetNormalOrientation" filter (but WITH
> "vtkPointSetNormalEstimation" filter) works correctly.
> 2) David Doria's "vtkPointSetNormalOrientationExample.cxx" works correctly.
> 3) I use the latest version (1.46.1) of boost libraries.
>
> Can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong?
> Thanks in advance.
>

That does kind of look like a Boost error. Can you please package up
the example that causes the problem so that someone else running
Windows can see if they can reproduce it for you (to see if it is a
problem with the code or a problem with your Boost
installation/version/etc).

David