Hi Developers.
I am in a situation where I update around 5% of the mesh very frequently. For this purpose, I generated faster cell and point locators. For the point locator, I modified the vtkIncrementalOctreeLocator to support removal and repositioning of points. Updating 5% of the mesh was 10x faster than rebuilding the locator. It is fairly simple to add this functionality. Would this be an idea. It is easy to test, when repositioning, I locate the Node, check bounds, if inside, I just update the point. If outside, I remove and add the point.
For the cell locator, I have done something terrible. I assume all cells are Triangles (a template). This is for sure general enough to be part of VTK. Here I get similar speedups, but the cell locator is more complex to test properly.
What are your thoughts. It still passes the old test and a new test case could be added by comparing consistency between moving many points and rebuilding the locator.
What are your thoughts?