[Insight-users] vtk image reader

[Will Schroeder]

Hi Pieter-

I believe this problem has been fixed. When did you download the beta? I 
can send you a patch if necessary.

Will

At 10:59 AM 4/4/2002 +0200, Pieter Vos wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have a problem with the usage of itkVTKImageIO.cxx
>The test file provided (itkVTKImageIOTest.cxx) works excelent, however I'm
>interested in just reading a vtk file, not first writing and then reading
>the written file.
>But I retrieve an exception when excecuting reader->update():
>
>exception in file reader
>Number of dimensions in file (2) does not match number of dimensions in
>output (3)
>Unknown
>
>The header looks like:
>
># vtk DataFile Version 3.0
>vtk output
>ASCII
>DATASET STRUCTURED_POINTS
>DIMENSIONS 20 20 20
>SPACING 1.05263 1.05263 1.05263
>ORIGIN 0 0 0
>POINT_DATA 8000
>COLOR_SCALARS scalars float 1
>
>So the number of dimensions should be set correct by the reader, but it
>does not so. The code looks like:
>
>
>   itk::VTKImageIO::Pointer vtkIO;
>   vtkIO = itk::VTKImageIO::New();
>   itk::ImageFileReader<FloatImageType>::Pointer reader;
>   reader = itk::ImageFileReader<FloatImageType>::New();
>   reader->SetImageIO(vtkIO);
>   reader->SetFileName("sphere.vtk");
>     try
>     {
>     reader->Update();
>     }
>   catch (itk::ExceptionObject & e)
>     {
>     std::cerr << "exception in file reader " << std::endl;
>     std::cerr << e.GetDescription() << std::endl;
>     std::cerr << e.GetLocation() << std::endl;
>     return EXIT_FAILURE;
>     }
>
>Do I need to do some presettings? Which one?
>
>Many thanks,
>
>--
>Pieter Vos
>AZN Radboud The Netherlands
>Tel.: 06-18876433
>mailto:pieterv@radiology.azn.nl
>
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