Add Support for Polyhedron Cells
taylormcd opened this issue · comments
Taylor McDonnell commented
This package doesn't appear to support VTKCellTypes.VTK_POLYHEDRON cells.
The following is an example VTK file for this cell type. As far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be a way to add the faces
and faceoffsets
fields in WriteVTK.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<VTKFile type="UnstructuredGrid" version="0.1" byte_order="LittleEndian" header_type="UInt32" compressor="vtkZLibDataCompressor">
<UnstructuredGrid>
<Piece NumberOfPoints="8" NumberOfCells="1">
<PointData>
</PointData>
<CellData>
</CellData>
<Points>
<DataArray type="Float32" Name="Points" NumberOfComponents="3" format="ascii" RangeMin="1.7320508075688772" RangeMax="1.7320508075688772">
-1 -1 -1 1 -1 -1
1 1 -1 -1 1 -1
-1 -1 1 1 -1 1
1 1 1 -1 1 1
</DataArray>
</Points>
<Cells>
<DataArray type="Int64" Name="connectivity" format="ascii" RangeMin="0" RangeMax="7">
0 1 2 3 4 5
6 7
</DataArray>
<DataArray type="Int64" Name="offsets" format="ascii" RangeMin="8" RangeMax="8">
8
</DataArray>
<DataArray type="UInt8" Name="types" format="ascii" RangeMin="42" RangeMax="42">
42
</DataArray>
<DataArray type="Int64" Name="faces" format="ascii" RangeMin="0" RangeMax="7">
6 4 0 3 2 1
4 0 4 7 3 4
4 5 6 7 4 5
1 2 6 4 0 1
5 4 4 2 3 7
6
</DataArray>
<DataArray type="Int64" Name="faceoffsets" format="ascii" RangeMin="31" RangeMax="31">
31
</DataArray>
</Cells>
</Piece>
</UnstructuredGrid>
</VTKFile>
Juan Ignacio Polanco commented
That shouldn't be too difficult to add.
However, I'm not really familiar with the specification of polyhedron cells. Could you provide some information on the definition of the faces
and faceoffsets
fields?