[vtkusers] vtkThinPlateSpline optimisation

Bill Lorensen bill.lorensen at gmail.com
Thu Mar 29 16:39:58 EDT 2012


Have you built your vtk and application with Release or Debug?

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Chenes Christophe (HES)
<christophe.chenes at hesge.ch> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I’m working on a text projector which is able to project an arbitrary text
> on a surface mesh (polydata).
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> To do so, I create two sets of points one on the original text landmarks and
> one on the surface corresponding landmarks.
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> I then transform the text with vtkThinPlateTransform using these two
> datasets.
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> It works very well but it’s not as optimal as it could be.
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> One word of seven letters, for example, is composed of about 760  3D points.
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> When I apply the transformation on it, it takes about 35 seconds to complete
> the computation.
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> I googled about an optimized TPS for vtk and didn’t find any relevant
> response, despite the mail from the list inquiring about the same topic but
> dating back to 2004 and which didn’t receive any relevant answer...
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> Therefore, does anyone use a faster, functional TPS version I could try in
> order to reduce this computation time ?
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Best regards,
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