[vtkusers] Can a VTKDataSet be converted to a vtkImage or vtkPolyData object?

[Cory Quammen]

Mr. Oregon Duckman,

Both vtkImageData and vtkPolyData are subclasses of vtkDataSet, so
they are already vtkDataSets.

Do you mean you have a vtkDataSet that is going to be either a
vtkImage or vtkPolyData, and you want to downcast it to the right
type? If so, you can do the following:

vtkDataSet* dataset = ...;
vtkImageData* imageData = vtkImageData::SafeDownCast(dataset);
vtkPolyData* polyData = vtkPolyData::SafeDownCast(dataset);

if (imageData) {
   // handle the case for vtkImageData
} else if (polyData){
  // handle the case for vtkPolyData
} else {
   std::cerr << "unknown type" << std::endl;
}

HTH,
Cory

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:15 PM, MrOregonduckman .
<oregonduckman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am looking for a way to convert a vtkDataSet to either a vtkImage or
> vtkPolyData object depending on the source of the dataset, any ideas out
> there?
>
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Cory Quammen
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