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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have a series of m by n points along with their normals. I
also have generated m-1 triangle strips but I don’t know how to combine
the data in order to render it.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>E.g if m = 3 and n = 5 then there are 15 points ( and
their normals), so, the triangle strips will be:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Strip 1: 5, 0, 6, 1,
7, 2, 8, 3, 9, 4</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Strip </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2: 10</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, 5, 11,
6, 12, 7, 13, 8, 14, 9</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The numbers are the indexes of the points. ( I think that
this is the vtk format, where the first three indexes define the triangle and
subsequent ones correspond to each additional triangle)</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>How do I set up the vtkPolyData structure to incorporate the
triangle strips? </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>If someone can point me to an example, I would really
appreciate it.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Since I have the normals will Gourand shading be used
automatically if I pass the vtkPolydata to a mapper?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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