vtkKitwareCutter Class Reference

#include <vtkKitwareCutter.h>

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Detailed Description

Cut vtkDataSet with user-specified implicit function.

vtkKitwareCutter is a filter to cut through data using any subclass of vtkImplicitFunction. That is, a polygonal surface is created corresponding to the implicit function F(x,y,z) = value(s), where you can specify one or more values used to cut with.

In VTK, cutting means reducing a cell of dimension N to a cut surface of dimension N-1. For example, a tetrahedron when cut by a plane (i.e., vtkPlane implicit function) will generate triangles. (Clipping takes a N dimensional cell and creates N dimension primitives.)

vtkKitwareCutter is generally used to "slice-through" a dataset, generating a surface that can be visualized. It is also possible to use vtkKitwareCutter to do a form of volume rendering. vtkKitwareCutter does this by generating multiple cut surfaces (usually planes) which are ordered (and rendered) from back-to-front. The surfaces are set translucent to give a volumetric rendering effect.

vtkKitwareCutter uses the synchronized templates algorithm to do contouring.

See also:: vtkImplicitFunction vtkClipPolyData

Created by:

Henderson, Amy

CVS contributions (if > 5%):

Henderson, Amy (91%)

CVS logs (CVSweb):

.cxx (/Patented/vtkKitwareCutter.cxx)
.h (/Patented/vtkKitwareCutter.h)

Definition at line 56 of file vtkKitwareCutter.h.

Public Types

typedef vtkCutter Superclass

Public Member Functions

virtual const char * GetClassName ()

virtual int IsA (const char *type)

void PrintSelf (ostream &os, vtkIndent indent)

Static Public Member Functions

vtkKitwareCutter * New ()

int IsTypeOf (const char *type)

vtkKitwareCutter * SafeDownCast (vtkObject *o)

Protected Member Functions

vtkKitwareCutter ()

~vtkKitwareCutter ()

void Execute ()

void StructuredPointsCutter ()

void StructuredGridCutter ()

void RectilinearGridCutter ()

Member Typedef Documentation

typedef vtkCutter vtkKitwareCutter::Superclass

Reimplemented from vtkCutter.
Definition at line 60 of file vtkKitwareCutter.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

vtkKitwareCutter::vtkKitwareCutter ( ) [protected]

vtkKitwareCutter::~vtkKitwareCutter ( ) [protected]

Member Function Documentation

vtkKitwareCutter* vtkKitwareCutter::New ( ) [static]

Construct with user-specified implicit function; initial value of 0.0; and generating cut scalars turned off.
Reimplemented from vtkCutter.

virtual const char* vtkKitwareCutter::GetClassName ( ) [virtual]

Reimplemented from vtkCutter.

int vtkKitwareCutter::IsTypeOf ( const char * type ) [static]

Return 1 if this class type is the same type of (or a subclass of) the named class. Returns 0 otherwise. This method works in combination with vtkTypeRevisionMacro found in vtkSetGet.h.
Reimplemented from vtkCutter.

virtual int vtkKitwareCutter::IsA ( const char * type ) [virtual]

Return 1 if this class is the same type of (or a subclass of) the named class. Returns 0 otherwise. This method works in combination with vtkTypeRevisionMacro found in vtkSetGet.h.
Reimplemented from vtkCutter.

vtkKitwareCutter* vtkKitwareCutter::SafeDownCast ( vtkObject * o ) [static]

Reimplemented from vtkCutter.

void vtkKitwareCutter::PrintSelf ( ostream & os,

vtkIndent indent

) [virtual]

Methods invoked by print to print information about the object including superclasses. Typically not called by the user (use Print() instead) but used in the hierarchical print process to combine the output of several classes.
Reimplemented from vtkCutter.

void vtkKitwareCutter::Execute ( ) [protected, virtual]

This method is the old style execute method
Reimplemented from vtkCutter.

void vtkKitwareCutter::StructuredPointsCutter ( ) [protected]

void vtkKitwareCutter::StructuredGridCutter ( ) [protected]

void vtkKitwareCutter::RectilinearGridCutter ( ) [protected]

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

dox/Patented/vtkKitwareCutter.h


Public Types
typedef vtkCutter	Superclass
Public Member Functions
virtual const char *	GetClassName ()
virtual int	IsA (const char *type)
void	PrintSelf (ostream &os, vtkIndent indent)
Static Public Member Functions
vtkKitwareCutter *	New ()
int	IsTypeOf (const char *type)
vtkKitwareCutter *	SafeDownCast (vtkObject *o)
Protected Member Functions
	vtkKitwareCutter ()
	~vtkKitwareCutter ()
void	Execute ()
void	StructuredPointsCutter ()
void	StructuredGridCutter ()
void	RectilinearGridCutter ()