<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Gib Bogle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:g.bogle@auckland.ac.nz">g.bogle@auckland.ac.nz</a>></span> wrote:</div>
<div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I'm looking at a dataset that is a collection of (x,y,z) points that lie on a complex surface. The way the points are generated ensures that they are closely spaced. I want to generate and render the 3D surface in VTK. I'm guessing that this is a commonly-encountered situation, and I'm hoping that someone can give me a quick pointer to the best way to approach it.<br>
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The points are actually in the form of 540 z-slices, and in each slice there is a set of polygons, i.e. a set of (x,y) sequences. The (x,y) point spacing is less than the (constant) z spacing. (The slices were extracted from microscopic images.) There are about 1,000,000 points.<br>
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Thanks.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Take a look at these examples:</div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx#Surface_reconstruction">http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx#Surface_reconstruction</a><div>
<br></div><div>Particularly the ones that use:</div><div><a href="http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx#Surface_reconstruction"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 27px; font-size: 12.5px; "><a href="http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkSurfaceReconstructionFilter.html" class="external text" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: url(http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/skins/monobook/external.png); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">vtkSurfaceReconstructionFilter</a></span><br clear="all">
<br></div><div>Let us know how it goes.</div><div><br></div><div>David</div></div></div>