[vtkusers] texture mapping animation

[Darren Weber]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 9:16 PM, T.R.Shashwath <trshash84 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 03 May 2008 20:58:51 Darren Weber wrote:
> > I have a closed surface where the faces contain triangles of the points,
> > eg:
> >
> > vtkSurf = vtk.vtkPolyData()
> > vtkSurf.SetPoints(points)
> > vtkSurf.SetPolys(faces)
> >
> > I also have a time-series of scalar values for every point.  How do I
> > display one time-point with a reasonable colormap?  How do I create a
> loop
> > that changes the point values that map into the colormap?
> >
> > Thanks in advance, Darren
>
> Hi,
>
> You'll have to create a vtkPointData instance to add to your surface. You
> can
> assign the scalar values of each point to that point data, and turn on
> scalar
> color mode in the poly data mapper. That will display one time-point. If
> you
> want to do an animation of the time-series, just replace all the point
> values
> again.
>
> -- Shash
>