[vtkusers] VTK in a multi-threaded program

[Aashish Chaudhary]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:53 AM, David Cole <dlrdave at aol.com> wrote:

> Hi Aashish,
>
> The blog post you pointed to was published in October 2012, and referenced
> releasing the source code by the end of 2013. Was the source code released?
> Is there a public repo for it?
>

At the end of the blog, Rusty answered this question. Please have a look at
it.

>
> I find it hard to believe that the only thing you had to do was "a
> vtkSmartPointer trick"...
>

It was not just that but it was part of the core implementation.

>
> If there is a way to run, for example, the vtkMarchingCubes filter on a
> large volumetric dataset, with a pipeline that's in a background non-GUI
> thread, it sure would be useful to have a snippet of example code that
> proves it. Or any other long running vtkAlgorithm, for that matter.
>

I don't remember what algorithms we ran but they were mostly image based or
our own written in VTK.

- Aashish

>
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>


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| Aashish Chaudhary
| R&D Engineer
| Kitware Inc.
| www.kitware.com
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