[vtkusers] Use VTK as geometry kernel

[Billy Araujo]

That is great news! A modular system is really what I need because I
can then derive my own custom classes to do specific stuff.

I was also considering the use of geometrictools but it seems that vtk
has more than enough functionality for now.

Billy.

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 7:22 PM, David E DeMarle
<dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
> I can't answer that definitively, as I don't know the scope of what
> your code needs to do.
>
> I can say that in VTK 6 there will be much less library overhead than
> there is now. VTK 6's modular structure makes it so that if you only
> want to use vtk's data structures you can configure and build a
> version of VTK that includes little more than the data structures
> themselves.
>
> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
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>
>
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:33 AM, Billy Araujo <billyaraujo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I feel VTK is geared toward visualization but it seems to do much more.
>> I would like to use VTK as my base mesh/geometry library for a FVM
>> code. Is this viable or will it have too much overhead?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Billy.
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