Surface Meshing
- VTK File - name and location of the .vtk file that
will be used in the surface meshing
- a. This can be any of the volumes created in the reconstruction
or the synthetic builder. The XDim - ,
YDim
and ZDim
are the size of the volume (in voxels), read from the input .vtk file.
- Scalars - name of the block of data to read
from the input .vtk file. If the volume is from either of the
Reconstruction or Synthetic Builder, then this should generally be set
to GrainID.
- Output Directory - this is the location that all of
the output files will be written to
- a. The output file is a .vtk file of poly data
- Output File Prefix - this option allows the user to
define a prefix to place on the output data files (which have a fixed
ÔbaseÕ name). The full names of the files will update in real-time on
the list of output files.
- Options -
- a. Binary VTK File - This option allows the user
to choose whether the output visualization file is in binary or ASCII
format.
- b. Conformal Mesh - this option creates a copy
of every triangular surface patch if turned on. This option is useful
for visualization because when writing poly data in a .vtk file, only
one attribute is assigned to each triangle, which negates that two
grains actually ÔshareÕ a triangle. If this option is on, then each
triangle will be written twice and one will be assigned to one grain
and the other to the second grain. If turned off, when the user
visualizes one grain at a time by thresholding the data, the grains
will appear to having ÔmissingÕ triangular patches.
- c. Delete Temporary Files - this option will
delete the temporary nodes and triangles files between all the
individual sections once the full volume has been meshed. This option
should usually be on since the temporary files are binary and
generally not of use to the user after-the-fact.
- Smooth Surface Mesh - this is an option to smooth
the surface mesh that is output from the marching cubes portion of the.
Currently this option is not functional and is under development with CMU.