[vtkusers] vtkCutter using vtkPolyPlane extends beyond polyline's endpoints

[Matteo]

Dear Luca

My problem was not related to the cut endpoints, but on some extra part 
that was not related to the polyline provided. I do not know if the 
problems can be related, but I can not exclude it.

you can read my first messages here:

http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtkusers/2017-April/098302.html

This is the sample image I provided

http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtkusers/attachments/20170405/c72a409b/attachment.png

And this is a short sample code I provided asking for help

http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtkusers/2017-April/098304.html


Regards

Matteo


Il 23/06/2017 15:30, Luca Pallozzi Lavorante ha scritto:
> Hi vtkusers,
>
> regarding my previous posting, describing the "waving" behavior of the 
> plane generated via vtkPolyPlane, I am attaching an image showing this 
> issue. Here I am using the following pipelyne : vtkPolyLine -> 
> vtkPolyPlane -> vtkCutter. The polyline is composed by three points 
> and vtkCutter is cutting through a vtkPolyData Surface. It is possible 
> to see the waving behavior in the resulting cut, just beyond the 
> polyline's endpoints.
>
>  Thank you for any help.
>
>            Luca
>
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Luca Pallozzi Lavorante 
> <lplavorante at gmail.com <mailto:lplavorante at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Marco, did you experience the same problem that I reported?
>      I mean, the cuts extending beyond the endpoints of the polyline
>     used to feed vtkPolyPlane?
>
>     I think that maybe the problem could be solved composing
>     vtkPolyPlane with two more planes normal to each polylne's
>     endpoints. I also think that this could be done using something
>     like vtkImplicitBoolean, but I don't know how. It is not clear to
>     me how instances of vtkImplicitFunction should be composed in
>     order to remove the planes past the polyline's endpoints. I also
>     noticed that this "extensions" are not planar: beyond the
>     polyline's endpoints the planes form "waves" when looked down
>     along the Z axis. I also noticed this behaviour by modifying the
>     Interaction/Widgets/Testing/Cxx/TestPolyPlane.cxx example, where I
>     explicitly created and visualized a vtkPolyData from vtkCutter's
>     output (In this example, vtkCutter received as implicit function
>     an instance of vtkPolyPlane, just as I needed).
>
>      Any kind help or explanation on this issue would be greatly welcomed.
>
>          Thank you
>
>              Luca
>
>     On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 6:12 PM, Luca Pallozzi Lavorante
>     <lplavorante at gmail.com <mailto:lplavorante at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi vtkusers,
>
>         I have a vtkUnstruturedGrid showing depositional data and I'd
>         like to cut this data using contiguous vertical slices defined
>         by a vtkPolyLine. I have seen in the documentation that
>         vtkPolyPlane generates the right implicit function which I can
>         pass to vtkCutter.
>         The resulting cuts are OK, but my vertical slices extends
>         beyond my polyline's endpoints. I would like to end the
>         cutting planes exaclty at my polyline's first and last point.
>         Is this possible?
>         I am using VTK 7.0 on Linux.
>
>           Thank you very much for any help
>
>                         Luca
>
>
>
>
>
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