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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>You have shallow copied the point normals from the input to the
output. Then overwritten them in the output. And therefore have overwritten
them in the input too. so of course they look the same. Passdata just passes
the array pointers using a shallow copy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Deepcopy the normals from input to output, then overwrite them.
Now you have different arrays for in and out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>this is a very common mistake and your students will learn a great
deal about how the pipeline operates. And hopefully you will too!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>JB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> paraview-bounces@paraview.org
[mailto:paraview-bounces@paraview.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Fred Fred<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 06 October 2010 14:48<br>
<b>To:</b> paraview@paraview.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Paraview] PassData() question<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Hello,<br>
I was just showing to my students how to write a very basic filter, for them to
concentrate on the different steps rather than on the algorithm itself but... my
example did not work!<br>
The filter was supposed just to withdraw the X components of the normal of a
PolyData and the students were asked to show a cylinder before and after the
filter so as to compare the shading.<br>
Looking at the code of the PassData() function, it seems that it really copies
everything but when I apply my filter, the shading is modified both in the
output and the input.<br>
So where is the problem and how should I do it?<br>
<br>
int vtkPbPassData::RequestData(<br>
vtkInformation *vtkNotUsed(request),<br>
vtkInformationVector **inputVector,<br>
vtkInformationVector *outputVector)<br>
{<br>
// get the info objects<br>
vtkInformation *inInfo = inputVector[0]->GetInformationObject(0);<br>
vtkInformation *outInfo = outputVector->GetInformationObject(0);<br>
<br>
// get the input and output<br>
vtkPolyData *input = vtkPolyData::SafeDownCast(<br>
inInfo->Get(vtkDataObject::DATA_OBJECT()));<br>
vtkPolyData *output = vtkPolyData::SafeDownCast(<br>
outInfo->Get(vtkDataObject::DATA_OBJECT()));<br>
<br>
// pass all associated data to output dataset<br>
output->CopyStructure(input);<br>
output->GetPointData()->PassData(input->GetPointData());<br>
output->GetFieldData()->PassData(input->GetFieldData());<br>
<br>
// modify the normals<br>
vtkPointData *pd = output->GetPointData();<br>
if (pd ==NULL) {<br>
vtkErrorMacro(<<"No point data");<br>
return 1;<br>
}<br>
vtkFloatArray *norms = (vtkFloatArray *)pd->GetNormals();<br>
if (norms == NULL) {<br>
vtkErrorMacro(<<"Normals must be defined for this
filter to work");<br>
return 1;<br>
}<br>
float *coords = norms->GetPointer(0);<br>
<br>
for (int i=0 ; i<output->GetNumberOfPoints() ; i++,coords+=3)<br>
*coords = 0;<br>
<br>
return 1;<br>
}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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