Thanks a lot for the insight. I didn't know about triangle mesh to simplex filter - it could come in quite handy.<div><br></div><div>Regards,<br><div>Dženan<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/5/25 Luis Ibanez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luis.ibanez@kitware.com">luis.ibanez@kitware.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi Dženan<br>
<br>
<br>
Summary:<br>
========<br>
<br>
Both classes implement a Deformable Model algorithm.<br>
The main difference between the two is that one of them<br>
expects a Triangulated Mesh as input, while the other<br>
one expects a Simplex Mesh as input.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Details:<br>
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<br>
The class:<br>
<a href="http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1DeformableSimplexMesh3DFilter.html" target="_blank">http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1DeformableSimplexMesh3DFilter.html</a><br>
<br>
is an abstract class, with an specialized implementation in<br>
<a href="http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1DeformableSimplexMesh3DBalloonForceFilter.html" target="_blank">http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1DeformableSimplexMesh3DBalloonForceFilter.html</a><br>
and<br>
<a href="http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1DeformableSimplexMesh3DGradientConstraintForceFilter.html" target="_blank">http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1DeformableSimplexMesh3DGradientConstraintForceFilter.html</a><br>
<br>
<br>
This filter expect as input a Simplex mesh,<br>
which can typically be generated by the filter:<br>
<a href="http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1TriangleMeshToSimplexMeshFilter.html" target="_blank">http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1TriangleMeshToSimplexMeshFilter.html</a><br>
<br>
For a description of the Simplex Mesh concept,<br>
please look at<br>
<a href="http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Herve.Delingette/simplex/index.php" target="_blank">http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Herve.Delingette/simplex/index.php</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On the other hand, the class<br>
<a href="http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1DeformableMesh3DFilter.html" target="_blank">http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1DeformableMesh3DFilter.html</a><br>
<br>
operates on a standard itk::Mesh.<br>
<br>
<br>
Please note that the classes<br>
<a href="http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1DeformableSimplexMesh3DBalloonForceFilter.html" target="_blank">http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1DeformableSimplexMesh3DBalloonForceFilter.html</a><br>
<a href="http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1DeformableSimplexMesh3DGradientConstraintForceFilter.html" target="_blank">http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1DeformableSimplexMesh3DGradientConstraintForceFilter.html</a><br>
<br>
have been gone through a better testing and verification than<br>
the class<br>
<a href="http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1DeformableMesh3DFilter.html" target="_blank">http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/classitk_1_1DeformableMesh3DFilter.html</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
<br>
Luis<br>
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2010/5/25 Dženan Zukić <<a href="mailto:dzenanz@gmail.com">dzenanz@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> Hi everyone!<br>
> Can someone explain the difference between those two filters? They look<br>
> suspiciously similar.<br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Dženan<br>
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