[Paraview] Contribution : Silhouette edges filter

[Paul Edwards]

The filter looks good.  I've tried to create an XML file to use in
ParaView.  I've attached my attempt although I don't know how to
initialise the camera or prop.  Can anyone help here?

Regards,
Paul

2008/7/30  <Thierry.CARRARD at cea.fr>:
> Dear colleagues,
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> Here attached is a vtk filter that extracts silhouette edges from a poly
> data.
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> Silhouette of a surface is made of lines lying on the surface where the
> surface normal is orthogonal to a direction.
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> Such edges are useful to produce CAD or sketch like drawings. It can be
> combined with a constant colored surface rendering to hide non-visible
> edges.
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> Attached example images are made from an iso-surface, but much nicer results
> are achieved when working with lagrangian numerical simulations.
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> Usage:
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> Pipeline: vtkPolyData à vtkPolyDataSilhouette à vtkPolyDataMapper à vtkActor
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> Parameters: SpecifiedVector and CameraVector modes use a uniform direction
> (resp. explicit or from a camera), while SpecifiedOrigin and CameraOrigin
> modes use the origin-to-center-of-the-edge direction. CameraOrigin mode is
> the one to use to produce sketch like drawings.
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> tips: try to combine black silhouettes edges (with line width between 1 and
> 3) with different kinds of surface base renderings (with or without
> lighting, constant colored or one color per material). It emphasizes very
> well the shape of some phenomena, especially for numerical simulations.
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> Note: Silhouette edges can also serve to generate shadow volumes, but this
> would need an additional contribution.
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> Contribution :
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> Author:
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> Thierry Carrard
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> Affiliation:
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> Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Direction des Applications
> Militaires, Département des Sciences de l'Information et de la Simulation.
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> BP12, 91680 Bruyères Le Chatel, France.
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