[vtkusers] Proxy class for vtkUnstructuredGrid

[Serge Lalonde]

No one has replied to this question. Is it because no one has done it or 
it is because it was a silly question?

Thanks.

On 10/4/2011 2:08 PM, Serge Lalonde wrote:
> Has anyone ever tried to create a vtkUnstructuredGrid proxy class to 
> wrap their own mesh class?
>
> We have our own code for meshes and would like to avoid converting the 
> data from our format to the vtkUnstructuredGrid and instead have a 
> wrapper class that uses aggregation to store an instance of our own 
> mesh class (a triangular or a tetrahedral mesh) when this is added as 
> the starting point of a pipeline. The APIs would be wrappers that 
> would get our data and convert it to VTK data types.
> This would avoid duplicating memory and speed up the pipeline by 
> avoiding the potentially large amount of data translation from our 
> format to VTK's.
>
> Is this possible and/or practical?
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