[vtkusers] Crust Algorithm in VTK?

Bill Lorensen bill.lorensen at gmail.com
Tue Sep 5 15:22:17 EDT 2017


I'm almost done making the Powercrust algorithm a VTK remote module.
The results look good, but it is VERY slow. In the next couple of
days, I publish details on how to use it. I need to find a test
dataset that runs quickly...

Bill

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 12:06 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I got it to build with minor changes... I'll see if I can add it as a
> remote module.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Unfortunately that code does not build with the current VTK...
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Simon Esneault
>> <simon.esneault at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Maybe this can help ?
>>> https://github.com/krm15/Powercrust
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
>>> 2017-09-05 15:23 GMT+02:00 Paul Korir <pkorir at ebi.ac.uk>:
>>>>
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> I recently came across the crust algorithm for computing a surface along a
>>>> set of points. It seems to be a relatively powerful algorithm but is not
>>>> implemented in VTK. VTK has the VTKRuledSurfaceFilter but this has major
>>>> limitations in various topologies. The alternative is to use some plugins
>>>> implemented for 3D Slicer but it seems like overkill to have to install 3D
>>>> Slicer plus an additional plugin just to solve this problem. Obviously the
>>>> better option would to implement the plugin functionality directly into VTK
>>>> but obviously I cannot dictate someone's development schedule.
>>>>
>>>> My question is: is there something wrong with the crust algorithm that has
>>>> prevented its implementation in VTK? Are there any plans for this? Is there
>>>> anything better that can then be included.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for shedding light on this most important of problems.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Paul K. Korir, PhD
>>>> Scientific Programmer
>>>> EMBL-EBI
>>>> 01223494422
>>>>
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