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Extract Internal Surfaces from Triangle Geometry

Group (Subgroup)

DREAM3D Review (Geometry)

Description

This Filter extracts any Triangles from the supplied Triangle Geometry that contain any internal nodes, then uses these extracted Triangles to create a new Data Container with the reduced Triangle Geometry. This operation is the same as removing all Triangles that only lie of the outer surface of the supplied Triangle Geometry. The user must supply a Vertex Attribute Array that defines the type for each node of the Triangle Geometry. Node types may take the following values:

Id Value Node Type
2 Normal Vertex
3 Triple Line
4 Quadruple Point
12 Normal Vertex on the outer surface
13 Triple Line on the outer surface
14 Quadruple Point on the outer surface

This Filter has the effect of removing any Triangles that only contain Vertices whose node Id values are 12, 13, or 14. In general, this node type array is created when the original surface mesh is created.

It is unknown until run time how the Geometry will be changed by removing certain Vertices and Triangles. Therefore, this Filter requires that a new Data Container be created to contain the new internal Triangle Geometry. This new Data Container will contain copies of any Feature or Ensemble Attribute Matrices from the original Data Container. Additionally, all Vertex and Face data will be copied, with tuples removed for any Vertices or Faces removed by the Filter. The user must supply a name for the new Data Container, but all other copied objects (Attribute Matrices and Attribute Arrays) will retain the same names as the original source.

Parameters

None

Required Geometry

Triangle

Required Objects

Kind Default Name Type Component Dimensions Description
Data Container TriangleDataContainer N/A N/A Data Container holding the Triangle Geometry from which to extract internal surfaces
Vertex Attribute Array NodeTypes int8_t (1) Specifies the type of node in the Geometry

Created Objects

Kind Default Name Type Component Dimensions Description
Internal Surfaces Data Container InternalTrianglesDataContainer N/A N/A Data Container holding the new Triangle Geometry and any copied Attribute Matrices and Attribute Arrays

Example Pipelines

Please see the description file distributed with this plugin.

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