Module category: Filter

• LineReduce
  • Parameters
  • Input Ports
  • Output Ports
  • Examples

LineReduce

LineReduce replaces a straight line built up of several segments by one line segment and thus reduces the amount of data. Two neighboring line-segments are recognized as parallel if their mutual angle (modulo pi ) is smaller than a given limit.

LineReduce is available in COVISE version 4.5 and higher. The module is tested on SGI and Linux systems.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
maxAngle	Scalar	Threshold below which two line-segments are recognized as parallel.
maxDifference	Scalar	maximum difference between two points.

Input Ports

Name	Type	Description
requiredlinesIn	Lines	Line-segments to be reduced
optionaldataIn	Vec3 Float	Either vector or scalar data on the lines.

Output Ports

Name	Type	Description
outputlinesOut	Lines	Reduced line-segments
dependdataOut	Vec3 Float	-

Examples

The following pipeline shows a simple example for the use of LineReduce. The feature-lines produced by DomainSurface consists of 1472 line-segments. LineReduce collapses the feature-lines to 19 Line-segments (as documented in the information about the data objects - last figure).

Figure: covise/net/examples/LineReduce.net

Figure: Image produced by the pipeline shown above.

Figure: Comparison of the data structures produced by DomainSurface (left) and LineReduce (right). LineReduce diminished the number of lines from 1472 to 19.

The next example shows you the result if color data is provided. With the parameter maxDifference it is possible to regulate which points should be shown. If the difference of data values at neigbour points is greater than maxDifference, LineReduce doesn't remove these points.

Figure: covise/net/examples/LineReduceColor.net

Figure: Image produced by the pipeline shown above.

Figure: parameters which can be set.