[vtkusers] clip STL surface

[Bill Lorensen]

you should be able to run vtkContourFilter on the distance field. set
the contour level to the distance threshold you desire.

Bill

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Martin Genet
<martin.genet at ucsfmedctr.org> wrote:
> Dear VTK users,
>
> I have two STL surfaces, say S1 & S2. I need to measure the area of the part
> of S1 that's "close" to S2.
>
> I thought of creating a third surface that would be a copy of S1 but without
> the cells that are "too far away" from S2. I'm able to use
> vtkDistancePolyDataFilter to create on S1 a field of distance to S2. But I
> can't seem to find a way to "filter" S1 using this distance field and a
> given threshold. Is there such a capability in vtk?
>
> More generally, is there a better way to do what I need to do?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Martin
>
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