[vtkusers] calculating volume enclosed by polydata mesh using Gauss' theorem

[Cory Quammen]

Maybe vtkMassProperties will do what you want?

http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkMassProperties.html

Cory

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Dr. Roman Grothausmann
<grothausmann.roman at mh-hannover.de> wrote:
> Dear mailing list members,
>
>
> Is there already a filter in VTK (ITK) that computes the volume enclosed by
> a closed polydata mesh using Gauss’ theorem for measuring volume?
> Like the Measure-Plugin in Blender or e.g. as described here:
> http://iopscience.iop.org/0031-9155/41/9/016/
>
> vtkMeshQuality is only per element based and therefore has no volume for
> polydata. I'd want to apply it after using vtkConnectivityFilter to get the
> volume of each disconnected (closed) component. Basically Gaetan Lehmann's
> ITK-contribution but for labelled meshes in VTK
> (http://www.insight-journal.org/browse/publication/176).
>
> Any help or hints are very much appreciated
> Roman
>
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Cory Quammen
Research Associate
Department of Computer Science
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill