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Find Feature Neighbors from Triangle Geometry

Group (Subgroup)

Statistics (Morphological)

Description

This Filter determines the list of neighboring (surface sharing) Features of each Feature in a Triangle Geometry. The result is the number of neighbors (and the list of neighbors) of each surface meshed Feature. The neighbors are determined using the following algorithm:

  1. Triangulate each face of the polyhedron (in this case, each face is already a triangle within the Triangle Geometry)
  2. For each triangular face, query the Face Labels array to note the Features on either side of the triangle face
  3. For each Feature on either side of the triangle face, add the other Feature to the list of neighbors
  4. Count the number of unique features in each Features neighbor list

Parameters

None

Required Geometry

Triangle

Required Objects

Kind Default Name Type Component Dimensions Description
Face Attribute Array FaceLabels int32_t (2) Specifies which Features are on either side of each Face
Attribute Matrix FaceFeatureData Face Feature N/A Feature Attribute Matrix of the selected Face Labels

Created Objects

Kind Default Name Type Component Dimensions Description
Feature Attribute Array NumNeighbors int32_t (1) Number of contiguous neighboring Features for a given Feature
Feature Attribute Array NeighborList List of int32_t (1) List of the contiguous neighboring Features for a given Feature

Example Pipelines

Please see the description file distributed with this plugin.

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