Great stuff indeed, Soeren!
Curiosity: how much faster is this compared to v.delaunay or likewise?
To me, it's not so much the speed that matters but functionality.
VTK's 2D Delaunay has a very useful "alpha" threshold setting to constrain
the triangle (by maximum triangle size).
In addition, it's capable of fitting a plane of reference through the data
points and does not assume that they lie perfectly in the X-Y plane.
This gives much better results for point clouds that describe e.g. micro relief
on a slope.
You can try this already, even without the VTK bridge: just export some
3D points to VTK, load into ParaView (3.6) and choose Delaunay 2D from
the "Filter" menu.
Now, if only we had a simple way of getting VTK data back into GRASS...
Ben
Markus
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Hello Ben,
2009/9/26 Benjamin Ducke <benjamin.ducke@oxfordarch.co.uk>:
Great stuff indeed, Soeren!
Thanks a lot. I hope this code will help to do something useful in the future.
Curiosity: how much faster is this compared to v.delaunay or likewise?
To me, it's not so much the speed that matters but functionality.
VTK's 2D Delaunay has a very useful "alpha" threshold setting to constrain
the triangle (by maximum triangle size).
In addition, it's capable of fitting a plane of reference through the data
points and does not assume that they lie perfectly in the X-Y plane.
This gives much better results for point clouds that describe e.g. micro relief
on a slope.
You can try this already, even without the VTK bridge: just export some
3D points to VTK, load into ParaView (3.6) and choose Delaunay 2D from
the "Filter" menu.
Now, if only we had a simple way of getting VTK data back into GRASS...
This is work in progress .... there will be of course a
vtkGRASSVectorPolyDataWriter()
in ... some ... weeks. 
Best regards
Soeren
Ben
Markus
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