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  Program:   Visualization Toolkit
  Module:    vtkMCubesWriter.h
  Language:  C++
  Date:      $Date$
  Version:   $Revision$

  Copyright (c) 1993-2002 Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Bill Lorensen 
  All rights reserved.
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// .NAME vtkMCubesWriter - write binary marching cubes file
// .SECTION Description
// vtkMCubesWriter is a polydata writer that writes binary marching cubes
// files. (Marching cubes is an isosurfacing technique that generates many
// triangles.) The binary format is supported by W. Lorensen's marching cubes
// program (and the vtkSliceCubes object). Each triangle is represented by
// three records, with each record consisting of six single precision
// floating point numbers representing the a triangle vertex coordinate and
// vertex normal.

// .SECTION Caveats
// Binary files are written in sun/hp/sgi (i.e., Big Endian) form.

// .SECTION See Also
// vtkMarchingCubes vtkSliceCubes vtkMCubesReader

#ifndef __vtkMCubesWriter_h
#define __vtkMCubesWriter_h

#include "vtkPolyDataWriter.h"

class VTK_IO_EXPORT vtkMCubesWriter : public vtkPolyDataWriter
{
public:
  static vtkMCubesWriter *New();
  vtkTypeRevisionMacro(vtkMCubesWriter,vtkPolyDataWriter);
  void PrintSelf(ostream& os, vtkIndent indent);

  // Description:
  // Set/get file name of marching cubes limits file.
  vtkSetStringMacro(LimitsFileName);
  vtkGetStringMacro(LimitsFileName);

protected:
  vtkMCubesWriter();
  ~vtkMCubesWriter();

  void WriteData();
  char *LimitsFileName;
private:
  vtkMCubesWriter(const vtkMCubesWriter&);  // Not implemented.
  void operator=(const vtkMCubesWriter&);  // Not implemented.
};

#endif


