[vtkusers] Please Help

[David Cole]

>    I am new on vtk, my question is :
> are the mappers and filters same thing in VTK?
> Looking forward your reply soon.





No, they are not.


A filter is an object that takes some sort of input, operates on it and then produces some sort of output.


A mapper is an object that also takes an input, and then maps it into some sort of data structure used to render that as a graphic entity of some sort.



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