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// .NAME vtkLODActor - an actor that supports multiple levels of detail
// .SECTION Description
// vtkLODActor is an actor that stores multiple Levels of Detail and can
// automatically switch between them. It selects which level of detail
// to use based on how much time it has been allocated to render. 
// Currently a very simple method of TotalTime/NumberOfActors is used.
// In the future this should be modified to dynamically allocate the
// rendering time between different actors based on their needs.
// There are currently three levels of detail. The top level is just
// the normal data.  The lowest level of detail is a simple bounding
// box outline of the actor. The middle level of detail is a point
// cloud of a fixed number of points that have been randomly sampled
// from the Mappers input data.  Point attributes are copied over to
// the point cloud.  These two lower levels of detail are accomplished by
// creating instances of a vtkOutlineFilter, vtkGlyph3D, and vtkPointSource.

// .SECTION see also
// vtkActor vtkRenderer

#ifndef __vtkLODActor_h
#define __vtkLODActor_h

#include "vtkActor.h"
#include "vtkMaskPoints.h"
#include "vtkOutlineFilter.h"
#include "vtkPolyDataMapper.h"
#include "vtkGlyph3D.h"
#include "vtkPointSource.h"

class VTK_EXPORT vtkLODActor : public vtkActor
{
 public:
  vtkLODActor();
  ~vtkLODActor();
  static vtkLODActor *New() {return new vtkLODActor;};
  const char *GetClassName() {return "vtkLODActor";};
  void PrintSelf(ostream& os, vtkIndent indent);

  virtual void Render(vtkRenderer *ren);

  // Description:
  // Set/Get the number of random points for the point cloud.
  vtkGetMacro(NumberOfCloudPoints,int);
  vtkSetMacro(NumberOfCloudPoints,int);

protected:
  vtkPointSource      PointSource;
  vtkGlyph3D          Glyph3D;
  vtkPolyDataMapper       *MediumMapper;
  vtkPolyDataMapper       *LowMapper;
  vtkMaskPoints       MaskPoints;
  vtkOutlineFilter    OutlineFilter;
  vtkTimeStamp        BuildTime;
  float               Size;
  int                 NumberOfCloudPoints;
  float               Timings[3];
  vtkActor           *Device;
};

#endif


