# picking glyphs vtkGlyph3DMapper

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/picking-glyphs-vtkglyph3dmapper/1618
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 19, 2019, 5:46pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/picking-glyphs-vtkglyph3dmapper/1618 "2019-08-19T17:46:30Z")
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### Author: ![noamb](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/noamb/32/10700_2.png) [@noamb](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/noamb)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/picking-glyphs-vtkglyph3dmapper/1618/5 "2019-08-30T14:11:31Z")

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By way of summary, I never was able to get things to work with vtkGlyph3DMapper. However, vtkProgrammableGlyphFilter did eventually work, using vtkIdFilter to attach IDs to glyphs so I could match both point (vtkCellPicker) and area (vtkAreaPicker + vtkExtractGeometry) picking information to underlying glyphs.

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