[Insight-users] Writing itk::Mesh to disk

[Yasser Bashir]

Hi Thomas,

Thank you for the code.

Unfortunately we want our itk::Mesh to be much more flexible than the
unstructuredGrid as we want neighbourhood and boundary feature
information also serialized to disk.

Therefore I was looking for something more generic and apparently ITK
doesn't have that facility yet.

Regards,

Yasser


-----Original Message-----
From: insight-users-admin at itk.org [mailto:insight-users-admin at itk.org]
On Behalf Of Thomas Boettger
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 12:40 AM
To: Yasser Bashir
Cc: insight-users at itk.org
Subject: Re: [Insight-users] Writing itk::Mesh to disk


Hi Yasser,

I would convert itk to vtkPolyData or vtkUnstructuredGrid and save it to

disk.

You find and example on how this can be done in

	InsightApplications-1.6.0/Auxiliary/vtk/vtk2itk.cxx


Furthermore I send you some code, which is based on the example, but 
where you can additionally create a vtkPolyData by calling the static
method

   static vtkPolyData* meshToPolyData(typename 
MeshType::Pointer mesh,
bool onlyTriangles = false);



Regards,

Thomas



Yasser Bashir wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Is there a convenient way to perform file I/O for itk::Mesh?
>  
> All of the IO filters seem to be catering to images.
>  
> Regards,
>  
> Yasser
> 
> 
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