May be it is obvious, but why we don't compute normal's for vtkPolyData in the first place? If the input has normal's array, then I would assume that output should have normal's by default.
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Andy Bauer <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to change ParaView's default behavior of the contour filter. > Currently the default is to compute normals and not compute gradients or > scalars. These defaults are only used for structured data sets (i.e. > vtkStructuredGrid, vtkImageData, and vtkRectilinearGrid) and are not options > when isosurfacing for vtkPolyData or vtkUnstructuredGrids. When the input > data set is a multiblock data set that contains both structured and > unstructured data sets the output for the current code results in a > multiblock data set with partial arrays (Normals for the structured data > sets and the contoured variable for the unstructured data sets). The change > I'd like to make is to make Compute Normals off by default and Compute > Scalars on by default so that the output is a bit more consistent. > > Does anyone think that this is a significant change and shouldn't be done? > > Thanks, > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > -- | Aashish Chaudhary | R&D Engineer | Kitware Inc. | www.kitware.com _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
