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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I have the same question as this guy asked a few months ago for which he got no responses. Does anyone have an answer this time around?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Angela</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Hi all,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I have two nearly spherical vtkPolyData meshes that I want compare. I </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">have used vtkMassProperties to look at the individual volumes of each </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">mesh, but I would like to calculate the volume that they overlap or </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">percentage of one contained in the other, etc. Are there any vtk </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">methods to stitch together two meshes to get the overlapping mesh? Or </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">is there a function that can compute the overlapping volume? Or are </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">there any recommendations on what approaches to take to accurately </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">calculate this value?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Any suggestions would be most appreciated.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Thanks in advance,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Derek</FONT>
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