[vtkusers] vtkPolyDataNormals with incoming cell data

[Gerrick Bivins]

Thanks David,
That seems to have been the issue. If I add a vtkTriangleFilter after the vtkTubeFilter, all is well.
:)
Gerrick

From: David Gobbi [mailto:david.gobbi at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 6:12 PM
To: Gerrick Bivins
Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org
Subject: Re: [vtkusers] vtkPolyDataNormals with incoming cell data

Hi Gerrick,

Does the input data have any triangle strips?  The filter will break these
into individual triangle cells.

  David

On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Gerrick Bivins <Gerrick.Bivins at halliburton.com<mailto:Gerrick.Bivins at halliburton.com>> wrote:
Hi All,
I have a dataset which contains cell data for which I'm generating streamlines via vtkStreamTracer.
I then pass this through a vtkTubeFilter. Up to this point, all is well.
The next step in the pipeline is passing this through a vtkDataSetSurfaceFilter.
Then I pass the output through a vtkPolyDataNormals filter and this is where the problem seems to occur.

The output of the vtkPolyDataNormals filter hasnew cells that were created during
the execution of the vtkPolyDataNormals filter which didn't seem correct.
Looking at the code, I think it is only copying the input cell data.
This causes problems when I try to query the output polydata.
For instance, which original cell  was a cell in the output generated from?

Anyone have some ideas on why vtkPolyDataNormals would create new cells?
My understanding was that it would only create new points where it needed to split
edges based on the split feature edges setting and the angle specified.

Gerrick
PS I'm still using 5.10.*


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