[vtkusers] Re : vtkBooleanOperationPolyDataFilter: SetOperationToDifference gives me strange results

[Malsoaz James]

This thread may help : http://vtk.1045678.n5.nabble.com/Holes-in-mesh-after-vtkBooleanOperationPolyDataFilter-td5713284.html


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 De : Miguel Sotaquira <msotaquira at gmail.com>
À : vtkusers at vtk.org 
Envoyé le : Jeudi 24 mai 2012 5h25
Objet : [vtkusers] vtkBooleanOperationPolyDataFilter: SetOperationToDifference gives me strange results
 

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to compute an XOR boolean operation between two NON manifold surfaces (see figure http://shareimage.org/images/3s5diyk1oypdib5fvx80.png). The surface A is the white one (top panel of previous figure) and the surface B is the red one (bottom panel). B is simply a region extracted from A using vtkExtractPolyDataGeometry.

Now I want to compute a boolean XOR between A and B in order to get C: the green colored surface. I'm using vtkBooleanOperationPolyDataFilter:

vtkSmartPointer<vtkBooleanOperationPolyDataFilter> boolean = vtkSmartPointer<vtkBooleanOperationPolyDataFilter>::New();
boolean->SetOperationToDifference();
boolean->SetInput(0,meshA);
boolean->SetInput(1,meshB);
boolean->Update();

vtkPolyData* meshC = boolean->GetOutput();

However, when using this approach I obtain a surface like this (the blue one): http://shareimage.org/images/gva77uyrmog4n2j1ndo.png;  that clearly is not the expected XOR operation.

I know I'm not using manifold surfaces (as explicitly required by vtkBooleanOperationPolyDataFilter) so I don't know if that's why I'm getting these results. If so, is there another way of computing this XOR operation?

Thanks,
Miguel

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