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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Problem is, that I can’t use the latest cvs for my app, coz it has several issues. Lately I can’t even start the app, gives me strange access violations in vtkPlane.cxx (even though this is the same file I use).<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I tried installing only vtkExtractSelectedFrustum but there where too many dependencies.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I read the source code and can’t really say how they detect the vtkInsideness, it’s a different way than what I tried, maybe I try to adopt the code.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Another Question: I read that data inside the frustum will be tagget with the attribute “vtkInsideness” How can I querry a Dataset for this attribute?<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Michael<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>Have you tried vtkExtractSelectedFrustum?<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>On 3/6/07, Michael Knopke <<a
href="http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers">Michael.Knopke at gmx.de</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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style='font-style:italic'> Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
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style='font-style:italic'> I'm trying to write a new vtk-filter that can crop-out (set scalars to<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
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style='font-style:italic'> fixed value e.g. 0) selected volumes (e.g. inside of BoxWidget).<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
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style='font-style:italic'> Unlike all other cropping filter I know, will this filter work with<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
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style='font-style:italic'> vtkImageData and preserve topology and geometry. This means it will not cut<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
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style='font-style:italic'> Therefore I'm trying to implement frustum culling (with the planes from<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
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style='font-style:italic'> BoxWidget) and later add octree to speed up calculation.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
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style='font-style:italic'> The problem I have is regarding detection if the point that is evaluated<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
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style='font-style:italic'> lies behind the plane. As far as I know, one has to calculate:<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
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style='font-style:italic'> 1). Shortest distance to plane (this works well) à returns<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
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style='font-style:italic'> 2). Add this distance to the DotProduct of ( PointX, NormalOfPlane):<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
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style='font-style:italic'> Result = PlanePointDistance + (vtkMath::Dot(PointX, <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Normal</st1:place></st1:City>));<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
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style='font-style:italic'> 3). If result is negative than pointX lies behind Plane<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
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style='font-style:italic'> Unfortunately this yields wrong results. Does anybody know what's wrong?<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
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style='font-style:italic'> Michael</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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