[Smtk-developers] An idea for connecting SMTK sessions

[TJ Corona]

Hi all,

I have an idea, and I’d like to know what everyone thinks. We currently have multiple sessions with different backings, and each of these sessions have a different set of operators that it can perform. To my understanding, if a user wants to cross from session to session, they currently have to do so manually (i.e. create a working model in one session, open the model in a new session and perform the operation). What if we created “bridges” between sessions that facilitated to/from operations for each session pair, and then made these conversions implicit during model manipulation in ModelBuilder? For example, we create a bridge between the polygon and mesh sessions that describe how to convert a model of one type to the other (going from polygon to mesh would imply an implicit meshing operation, and going from mesh to model would imply an extraction of vertices, edges and faces in the mesh session to construct a polygon model). This way, a user could create a polygon model and then perform any of the meshing operations on it without having to know what session currently backs their model. Is this crazy?

Sincerely,
T.J.

Thomas J. Corona, Ph.D.
Kitware, Inc.
Senior R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4443

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