Hi Derek and Angela,<br><br>You can use vtkImplicitBoolean + vtkExtractGeometryFilter to do this. Have a look at the vtkImplicitBoolean examples:<br><br><a href="http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkImplicitBoolean.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkImplicitBoolean.html</a><br><br>Glen<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 24/05/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Noecker, Angela M.</b> <<a href="mailto:noeckera@ccf.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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<p><font face="Courier New" size="2">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 face="Courier New" size="2">Angela</font>
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<p><font face="Courier New" size="2">Hi all,</font>
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<p><font face="Courier New" size="2">I have two nearly spherical vtkPolyData meshes that I want compare. I </font>
<br><font face="Courier New" size="2">have used vtkMassProperties to look at the individual volumes of each </font>
<br><font face="Courier New" size="2">mesh, but I would like to calculate the volume that they overlap or </font>
<br><font face="Courier New" size="2">percentage of one contained in the other, etc. Are there any vtk </font>
<br><font face="Courier New" size="2">methods to stitch together two meshes to get the overlapping mesh? Or </font>
<br><font face="Courier New" size="2">is there a function that can compute the overlapping volume? Or are </font>
<br><font face="Courier New" size="2">there any recommendations on what approaches to take to accurately </font>
<br><font face="Courier New" size="2">calculate this value?</font>
<br><font face="Courier New" size="2">Any suggestions would be most appreciated.</font>
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<p><font face="Courier New" size="2">Thanks in advance,</font>
<br><font face="Courier New" size="2">Derek</font>
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