Say I have a tube. I can use vtkCutter to get the intersection between the tube and a plane as vtkPolyData. This polydata contains two disjoint polygon.
I can use vtkConnectivityFilter to distinguish the points/cells from disjoint polygons. But what is a robust way to tell which one represents the exterior/interior contour?
Thanks,
Cam
I would use the cell normals wrt axis to distinguish them, eg.:
from vedo import *
d1 = Disc(r1=0.1, r2=0.2)
d2 = Disc(r1=0.3, r2=0.4)
tube = merge(d1,d2).extrude(1).flat().computeNormals()
centers = tube.cellCenters()[:,(0,1)]
normals = tube.celldata["Normals"][:,(0,1)]
value = np.sum(centers*normals, axis=1)
tube.cmap('jet', value, on='cells').show(axes=1)
what does this line do? Can you elobrate? Thanks.
the scalar product of the vector position to the normal (actually a square is missing but it’s just to give the idea).