[vtkusers] VTKPolyData Boolean Operators

Cory Quammen cquammen at cs.unc.edu
Mon May 16 17:47:34 EDT 2011


On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cory,
>
> To be consistent with other polydata filters, the class
> vtkPolyDataBooleanOperationFilter should be named
> vtkBooleanOperationPolyDataFilter
>
> The naming convention goes from general to specific as we read from right to
> left.
>
> For example:
> vtkSmoothPolyDataFilter
> vtkWindowedSincPolyDataFilter
> vtkTransformPolyDataFilter
>
> Unfortunately, some filters leave off Filter:
> vtkShrinkPolyData and many others.
>
> Things like this can be taken care of now or when we put this under gerrit
> for review.

I'll include the filter name change in my next update to the source
for the journal article.

Thanks,
Cory



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