Hi Ben,
great, thanks for letting me know.
Luca
On Mar 5, 2012, at 8:40 PM, Berkowitz, Benjamin M wrote:
> Luca,
>
> That's a great solution - it works just the way I had hoped.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben Berkowitz
>
>
> From: Luca Antiga [luca.ant...@orobix.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 1:39 AM
> To: Berkowitz, Benjamin M
> Cc: vmtk-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> 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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