List of Effects

On this page, you can find reference to all available effects in MfxVTK. They are roughly divided into three categories:

• effects related to point clouds (meshes with no faces or edges),

• effects related to edge wireframes (meshes with no faces) and

• effects related to polygonal meshes (the usual kind of mesh).

Depending on the effect, different kinds of input are supported (eg. Make Tubes can work with wireframe or polygonal mesh, while Fill Holes only works with polygonal mesh). If a given effect doesn’t support the input you give it, it will either have no effect or you may get empty output. Effects should generally “just work” for all combinations that make sense.

Note

It’s totally OK and even encouraged to stack the effects on top of one another. You may start with a polygonal mesh, create a point cloud out of it, then create a wireframe, then a polygonal mesh out of the wireframe.

The possibilities are endless! (Host limitations notwithstanding; Blender lends itself to work with polygonal meshes more so than with point clouds or wireframes, though all are possible.)

Point Cloud Effects

• Sample Points (Surface)
• Sample Points (Volume)

Edge Wireframe Effects

• Extract Edges
• Make Tubes
• Tetrahedral Wireframe

Polygonal Mesh Effects

• Smooth
• Decimate
• Poke
• Distance Along Surface
• Fill Holes