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> <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">are the mappers and filters same thing in VTK?</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
> <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Looking forward your reply soon.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></b></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"> </div><div class="gmail_extra">No, they are not.</div><div class="gmail_extra"> </div><div class="gmail_extra">A filter is an object that takes some sort of input, operates on it and then produces some sort of output.</div><div class="gmail_extra"> </div><div class="gmail_extra">A mapper is an object that also takes an input, and then maps it into some sort of data structure used to render that as a graphic entity of some sort.</div><div class="gmail_extra"> </div><div class="gmail_extra"> </div><div class="gmail_extra">D</div><div class="gmail_extra"> </div>
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