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

  Program:   Visualization Toolkit
  Module:    vtkImageCityBlockDistance.h

  Copyright (c) Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen
  All rights reserved.
  See Copyright.txt or http://www.kitware.com/Copyright.htm for details.

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     PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notice for more information.

=========================================================================*/
// .NAME vtkImageCityBlockDistance - 1,2 or 3D distance map.
// .SECTION Description
// vtkImageCityBlockDistance creates a distance map using the city block
// (Manhatten) distance measure.  The input is a mask.  Zero values are
// considered boundaries.  The output pixel is the minimum of the input pixel
// and the distance to a boundary (or neighbor value + 1 unit).
// distance values are calculated in pixels.
// The filter works by taking 6 passes (for 3d distance map): 2 along each 
// axis (forward and backward). Each pass keeps a running minimum distance.
// For some reason, I preserve the sign if the distance.  If the input 
// mask is initially negative, the output distances will be negative.
// Distances maps can have inside (negative regions) 
// and outsides (positive regions).

#ifndef __vtkImageCityBlockDistance_h
#define __vtkImageCityBlockDistance_h


#include "vtkImageDecomposeFilter.h"

class VTK_IMAGING_EXPORT vtkImageCityBlockDistance : public vtkImageDecomposeFilter
{
public:
  static vtkImageCityBlockDistance *New();
  vtkTypeRevisionMacro(vtkImageCityBlockDistance,vtkImageDecomposeFilter);
  
protected:
  vtkImageCityBlockDistance();
  ~vtkImageCityBlockDistance() {};

  virtual int IterativeRequestUpdateExtent(vtkInformation* in,
                                           vtkInformation* out);
  virtual int IterativeRequestData(vtkInformation*,
                                    vtkInformationVector**,
                                    vtkInformationVector*);

  void AllocateOutputScalars(vtkImageData *outData);

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

#endif



