[vtkusers] World Units

[Ken Martin]

Although the OpenVR module does use the notion of a physical to world
transformation to map between meters in the VR room and the world
coordinates.


On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 9:57 AM David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
wrote:

> vtk itself is unitless. it is up to the application to keep track of that.
>
> David E DeMarle
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> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 9:53 AM Matthew Troke <
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>> What units are world dimensions in VTK? For example, if I create a cube
>> that is 1.0 in width, is that considered to be 1 meter, 1 cm, etc? Or are
>> they unitless and defined by the source data? I assume if you are loading
>> in some type of medical data, units are important.
>>
>> Matt
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