[vtkusers] "Disabling" a volume rendering pipeline in a controlled way?

[Elvis Stansvik]

2016-06-29 19:25 GMT+02:00 David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>:

> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Elvis Stansvik <
> elvis.stansvik at orexplore.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I see, and it makes sense now: The shallow copying of the result and
>> subsequent discarding of the pipeline must still be done in Python. It's
>> not enough to just let the pipeline go out of scope, since VTK will then
>> still hold references keeping the objects of the pipeline alive (preventing
>> Python garbage collection) (?).
>>
>
> Well, from VTK 6 onwards the data objects shouldn't hold any references to
> the upstream pipeline... the "shallow copy" trick is something I started
> doing back in the days of VTK 5, but it still works fine for VTK 6 and VTK
> 7 so I haven't changed it.
>

Ah, I see.


>
>  - David
>
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