[vtkusers] vtkTransform: doesn't work for long distance translation

[kenichiro yoshimi]

Hello,

Usually setting double precision for the transform filter solves the problem.
 transformFilter.SetOutputPointsPrecision(vtk.vtkAlgorithm.DOUBLE_PRECISION)

But in your case, switching to double is not sufficient for preventing
the loss of trailing digits because the difference in the absolute
value is too large between the coordinates of text polydata with 1e-10
and the translation-value with 1e+7. It might be more practical to
display string as labels using vtkLabeledDataMapper and so on.

Thanks

2017-12-15 1:10 GMT+09:00 Alexey Pechnikov <pechnikov at mobigroup.ru>:
> This sample code works correct:
>
> transform = vtk.vtkTransform()
> transform.Translate(0, 100, 0)
>
> but the same code produces bad geometry:
>
> transform = vtk.vtkTransform()
> transform.Translate(0,10000000, 0)
>
> P.S. Yes, I really need y=10000000 for GIS data. And I can use the same
> coordinates for VTK data arrays without any problem.
>
>
> There is the full test script below:
>
> import sys
>
> sys.path.append("/usr/local/Cellar/vtk/8.0.1_1//lib/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/")
>
>
> import vtk
>
>
> text = vtk.vtkVectorText()
>
> text.SetText('PLD003')
>
>
> # Set up a transform to move the label to a new position.
>
> transform = vtk.vtkTransform()
>
> transform.Identity()
>
> transform.Translate(0, 10000000, 0)
>
> #transform.Translate(100,100,100)
>
>
> transformFilter = vtk.vtkTransformPolyDataFilter()
>
> for x in range(100):
>
>     transformFilter.SetTransform(transform)
>
> transformFilter.SetInputConnection(text.GetOutputPort())
>
>
> writer = vtk.vtkXMLPolyDataWriter()
>
> writer.SetInputConnection(transformFilter.GetOutputPort())
>
> writer.SetFileName('text.vtp')
>
> writer.SetDataModeToAscii()
>
> writer.Write()
>
>
> --
> Best regards, Alexey Pechnikov.
>
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