Luca,

That's a great solution - it works just the way I had hoped.

Thanks,
Ben Berkowitz


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From: Luca Antiga [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 1:39 AM
To: Berkowitz, Benjamin M
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [vmtk-users] vmtksurfacedistance for volume meshes

Hi Ben,
 I'll give it a shot:

- first turn your mesh into a surface data type without throwing out data (i.e. 
all the nodes of the mesh will be preserved)

vmtkmeshtosurface -ifile mesh.vtu -ofile mesh_s.vtp -cleanoutput 0

- then compute the distance

vmtksurfacedistance -ifile mesh_s.vtp -rfile ref_surface.vtp -distancearray 
Distance -ofile mesh_sd.vtp

- then turn your surface back to a mesh data type

vmtksurfacetomesh -ifile mesh_sd.vtp -ofile mesh_sdm.vtu

- last project your distance values onto your original mesh

vmtkmeshprojection -ifile mesh.vtu -rfile mesh_sdm.vtu -ofile mesh_d.vtu

At this point mesh_d.vtu should contain an array named Distance with the 
desired values.

Hope this works for you


Luca


On Mar 1, 2012, at 10:40 PM, Berkowitz, Benjamin M wrote:

Luca,

I was hoping to perform an operation similar to what vmtksurfacedistance does 
for two surfaces.  However, I need to calculate the minimum pointwise distances 
at each cell of a volume mesh to a reference surface.  Will vmtksurfacedistance 
take a volume mesh as an input, or do you know of any simple solution to this 
problem?

Thanks,
Ben Berkowitz
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