[vtkusers] Fwd: Unsure how to use vtkDelaunay3D

[David Gobbi]

The documentation for vtkDelaunay3D says that it outputs only tetrahedrons
unless you specifically set the "Alpha" value (I'm not 100% sure what
"Alpha" is for, but since you aren't using it, I don't think you need to
worry about it).

 - David

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 6:19 PM, vtk matt <vtkmatt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Thanks for the clarification.  I
> ran tets->GetOutput()->GetNumberOfElements(vtkDataObject::CELL) and got a
> value of 18 for my input which would make sense as the number of
> tetrahedrons.  Do you know if I can expect these cells to in fact contain
> tetrahedrons then?
>
> --Matt
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:17 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Matt,
>>
>> You've been misled by VTK's rather terse documentation:
>>
>>   Get the number of elements for a specific attribute type (POINT, CELL,
>> etc.).
>>
>> For a mesh, you can call GetNumberOfElements(vtkDataObject::POINT) or you
>> can call GetNumberOfElements(vtkDataObject::CELL).  Those are the only two
>> choices.  You can't ask for a particular type of cell, all you can do is
>> ask it to return the total number of cells.
>>
>>  - David
>>
>> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:41 PM, vtk matt <vtkmatt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have spent the past few days trying to figure out how to use
>>> vtkDelaunay3D properly and decided I'd better seek out some help.  My goal
>>> is relatively straight-forward:  Given a set of points in 3D, generate a
>>> tetrahedral mesh, and use the results to determine which tetrahedron
>>> contains an arbitrary point.
>>>
>>> In its simplest form I am doing the following:
>>>
>>> vtkSmartPointer<vtkDelaunay3D> tets =
>>> vtkSmartPointer<vtkDelaunay3D>::New();
>>> tets->SetInput(points);
>>> tets->Update();
>>> printf("Number of tets: %d\n",
>>> tets->GetOutput()->GetNumberOfElements(VTK_TETRA));
>>>
>>> The output claims there are zero tetrahedrons.  However if I render an
>>> actor from tets->GetOutput(), I am able to visualize a wireframe surface
>>> mesh, so I know it's doing something.
>>>
>>> So I guess my questions are the following:  Why does the output not
>>> contain any tetrahedrons?  Why does the mesh only show surface triangles?
>>> Ultimately what is the proper way to construct a tetrahedral mesh such that
>>> I can query which tetrahedron contains an arbitrary point?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> --Matt
>>>
>>
>>
>
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