[vtkusers] Holes on surface of clipped unstructured data set

[Andreas Hessenthaler]

Hi there,

does anybody have any idea, why this happens?

Cheers
Andreas


On Sat, January 3, 2015 10:21 pm, Andreas Hessenthaler wrote:
Hi there,

I have an unstructured grid with scalar and vector data which I clip using
vtkClipDataSet and vtkPlane:

clippingPlaneF = vtk.vtkPlane()
clippingPlaneF.SetOrigin(0.5*(minXF+maxXF), 0.5*(minYF+maxYF),
0.5*(minZF+maxZF))
clippingPlaneF.SetNormal(0.0, 1.0, 0.0)

clipF = vtk.vtkClipDataSet()
clipF.SetInput(meshF)
clipF.SetClipFunction(clippingPlaneF)
clipF.InsideOutOn()

extractClipF = vtk.vtkGeometryFilter()
extractClipF.SetInput(clipF.GetOutput())
linearSubdivisionClipF = vtk.vtkLinearSubdivisionFilter()
linearSubdivisionClipF.SetInput(extractClipF.GetOutput())
linearSubdivisionClipF.SetNumberOfSubdivisions(2)

clipMapperF = vtk.vtkDataSetMapper()

Now, if I use
clipMapperF.SetInputConnection(clipF.GetOutputPort())
the colors on the surface appear jagged. Thus, I tried the subdivision
filter, i.e.
clipMapperF.SetInputConnection(linearSubdivisionClipF.GetOutputPort())
which gives a nice result in terms of the color mapping, but introduces
holes on the surface, that result from clipping the data set (complete
data set is fine), see screenshot attached.

Some background if helpful: the data set is a 3D unstructured grid with
pressure and velocity field. The cells are of type vtkQuadraticTetra,
though vtkTetra gives the same result. Attached screenshot shows velocity
magnitude (components or pressure have same behavior).

Any help is much appreciated!

Cheers
Andreas_______________________________________________
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