This example shows how to extract the output of a filter. The output of this method is a python dictionary. Note: most of the filters do not return nothing. Only for some filters makes sense to return some values.
The output dictionary is always on the form [key - value], where the key is of str type and the value can be a boolean, int, float or a numpy.array depending on what is best to represent the returned value.
Right now the :ref:`filter_list` documentation lacks on if and what type of values a filter returns (we are sorry about that!). We will expand the documentation in the future; in the meantime we suggest to look for the name and type of values returned by running the desired filter from a python console.
This script can be executed by running the following command:
pytest --pyargs pymeshlab -k 'apply_filter_output'
tests/example_apply_filter_output.py