Vtk Inserts Incorrect Color Between Nodes When Mapping Texture To Mesh

Hi I am trying to map a texture to 3d mesh using Mayavi and Python bindings of vtk. I am visualising an .obj wavefront. This obj is 3D photograph of a face. The texture image is a

Solution 1:

You can turn off all interpolation (change interpolate = 1 to interpolate = 0 in your example), but there is not a way to turn off interpolation at just the places where it would interpolate across sub-images of the texture – at least not without writing your own fragment shader. This will likely look crude.

Another solution would be to create 3 texture images with transparent texels at each location that is not part of the actor's face. Then render the same geometry with the same texture coordinates but a different image each time (i.e., have 3 actors each with the same polydata but a different texture image).

Solution 2:

I just ran into this exact problem as well and found that the reason this happens is because VTK assumes there's a 1-to-1 relationship between points in the polydata and uv coordinates when rendering the actor and associated vtkTexture. However, in my case and the case of OP, there are neighboring triangles that are mapped to different sections the the image, so they have very different uv coordinates. The points that share these neighboring faces can only have one uv coordinate (or Tcoord) associated with it, but they actually need 2 (or more, depending on your case).

My solution was to loop through and duplicate these points that lie on the the seams/borders and create a new vtkCellArray with triangles with these duplicated pointIds. Then I simply replaced the vtkPolyData Polys() list with the new triangles. It would have been much easier to duplicate the points and update the existing pointIds for each of the triangles that needed it, but I couldn't find a way to update the cells properly.