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  Program:   Visualization Toolkit
  Module:    vtkImageConnector.h
  Language:  C++
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  Thanks:    Thanks to C. Charles Law who developed this class.

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// .NAME vtkImageConnector - Create a binary image of a sphere.
// .SECTION Description
// vtkImageConnector is a helper class for connectivity filters.  
// It is not meant to be used directly.
// It implements a stack and breadth first search necessary for
// some connectivity filters.  Filtered axes sets the dimensionality 
// of the neighbor comparison, and
// cannot be more than three dimensions.  
// As implemented, only voxels which share faces are considered
// neighbors. 


#ifndef __vtkImageConnector_h
#define __vtkImageConnector_h

#include "vtkObject.h"
#include "vtkImageData.h"

//
// Special classes for manipulating data
//
//BTX - begin tcl exclude
//
// For the breadth first search
class vtkImageConnectorSeed { //;prevent man page generation
public:
  void *Pointer;
  int  Index[3];
  vtkImageConnectorSeed *Next;
};
//ETX - end tcl exclude
//


class VTK_EXPORT vtkImageConnector : public vtkObject
{
public:
  vtkImageConnector();
  ~vtkImageConnector();
  static vtkImageConnector *New() {return new vtkImageConnector;};
  const char *GetClassName() {return "vtkImageConnector";};
  
  //BTX
  vtkImageConnectorSeed *NewSeed(int index[3], void *ptr);
  void AddSeed(vtkImageConnectorSeed *seed);
  void AddSeedToEnd(vtkImageConnectorSeed *seed);
  //ETX
  void RemoveAllSeeds();

  // Description:
  // Values used by the MarkRegion method
  vtkSetMacro(ConnectedValue, unsigned char); 
  vtkGetMacro(ConnectedValue, unsigned char);
  vtkSetMacro(UnconnectedValue, unsigned char);
  vtkGetMacro(UnconnectedValue, unsigned char);

  void MarkData(vtkImageData *data, int dimensionality, int ext[6]);

private:
  unsigned char ConnectedValue;
  unsigned char UnconnectedValue;

  vtkImageConnectorSeed *PopSeed();

  vtkImageConnectorSeed *Seeds;
  vtkImageConnectorSeed *LastSeed;
};



#endif

  
