/*=========================================================================

  Program:   Visualization Toolkit
  Module:    $RCSfile: vtkDiscreteMarchingCubes.h,v $

  Copyright (c) Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen
  All rights reserved.
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// .SECTION Thanks
// Jim Miller at GE Research implemented the original version of this
// filter.
// This work was supported by PHS Research Grant No. 1 P41 RR13218-01
// from the National Center for Research Resources and supported by a
// grant from the DARPA, executed by the U.S. Army Medical Research
// and Materiel Command/TATRC Cooperative Agreement,
// Contract # W81XWH-04-2-0012.

=========================================================================*/
// .NAME vtkDiscreteMarchingCubes - generate object boundaries from
// labelled volumes
// .SECTION Description vtkDiscreteMarchingCubes is a filter that
// takes as input a volume (e.g., 3D structured point set) of
// segmentation labels and generates on output one or more
// models representing the boundaries between the specified label and
// the adjacent structures.  One or more label values must be specified to
// generate the models.  The boundary positions are always defined to
// be half-way between adjacent voxels. This filter works best with
// integral scalar values.
// If ComputeScalars is on (the default), each output cell will have
// cell data that corresponds to the scalar value (segmentation label)
// of the corresponding cube. Note that this differs from vtkMarchingCubes,
// which stores the scalar value as point data. The rationale for this
// difference is that cell vertices may be shared between multiple
// cells. This also means that the resultant polydata may be
// non-manifold (cell faces may be coincident). To further process the
// polydata, users should either: 1) extract cells that have a common
// scalar value using vtkThreshold, or 2) process the data with
// filters that can handle non-manifold polydata
// (e.g. vtkWindowedSincPolyDataFilter).
// Also note, Normals and Gradients are not computed.
// .SECTION Caveats
// This filter is specialized to volumes. If you are interested in 
// contouring other types of data, use the general vtkContourFilter. If you
// want to contour an image (i.e., a volume slice), use vtkMarchingSquares.
// .SECTION See Also
// vtkContourFilter vtkSliceCubes vtkMarchingSquares vtkDividingCubes

#ifndef __vtkDiscreteMarchingCubes_h
#define __vtkDiscreteMarchingCubes_h

#include "vtkMarchingCubes.h"

class VTK_GRAPHICS_EXPORT vtkDiscreteMarchingCubes : public vtkMarchingCubes
{
public:
  static vtkDiscreteMarchingCubes *New();
  vtkTypeRevisionMacro(vtkDiscreteMarchingCubes,vtkMarchingCubes);

protected:
  vtkDiscreteMarchingCubes();
  ~vtkDiscreteMarchingCubes();

  virtual int RequestData(vtkInformation *, vtkInformationVector **, 
                          vtkInformationVector *);

private:
  vtkDiscreteMarchingCubes(const vtkDiscreteMarchingCubes&);  // Not implemented.
  void operator=(const vtkDiscreteMarchingCubes&);  // Not implemented.

};

#endif


