Make lines in .vtp file - graph

I want to visualize a graph in 3d in paraview. This requires me to have points and edges connecting the points. I know how to make the points but can't seem to figure out how to make the edges.
Currently I can make .vtp files with points and associated vectors. I want to know how to modify my .vtp files to include these edges as well.
Thanks for any help!

You should use a vtkLineSource:
vtkSmartPointer<vtkLineSource> lineSource =
vtkSmartPointer<vtkLineSource>::New();
lineSource->SetPoint1(p0);
lineSource->SetPoint2(p1);
lineSource->Update();
lineSource->GetOutput() will give you a polydata that you can then write with a vtkXMLPolyDataWriter. See a full example here: http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/GeometricObjects/Line

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I'm clearly struggling with this problem for a day now and can't seem to find a nice solution to it. I would really appreciate some help and I'm really a novice in R (since last week).
Problem 1:
I have a set CSV representing grid points which I can parse into a data frame (pointname, latitude, longitude).
Eg:
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x1y0,35.9767,-122.594
x2y0,35.9767,-122.583
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x1y1,35.9857,-122.594
x2y1,35.9857,-122.583
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x2y2,35.9947,-122.583
The points in this file represent the lower left corner and are arranged in row major format, meaning lowest horizontal grid points first. Each point is a certain great circle distance away from its neighbors (1km). I want to create a grid overlay on a map which I've plotted using ggmap.
What I've tried or considered:
map.grid() - this is really not useful to me as I'm not looking for any kind of projection.
geom_vline() and geom_hline(). These look good but I don't have constant x and y intercepts on a plane. Moreover, once I create a grid, I'd like to use the grid to color against a density.
geom_rect() and geom_tile(). These look really promising and may be what I want. But I'm not able to find a good way of working with these.
I'd like to fill these grid boxes later with another parameter. Any suggestions on how I can create such a grid? This may be a trivial question but I don't know a lot of R yet.
Problem 2:
How can I store or hold such a grid so that I given a point (lat,lon), I can quickly get to that grid. In fact my whole back end is in C++ and can directly output the grid name x<n>y<n> directly against a given search point. I somehow am finding it difficult to count such points against grid points so that I can fill grid with a representative color.
I'm not sure if everything of what I'm saying is clear. Please tell me if I've to clarify something.
Also note that I've Googled quite a lot and not found relevant answers although some looked close.
Eg: This, ThisToo
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I have a scanned map from which i would like to extract the data into form of Long Lat and the corresponding value. Can anyone please tell me about how i can extract the data from the map. Is there any packages in R that would enable me to extract data from the scanned map. Unfortunately, i cannot find the person who made this map.
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You're better off with something like opencv
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To sample from your image at a lat-long point, invert the transformation.
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I'm wondering what top-secret information has been blanked out from the top left corner. If it did say what the projection was that would help enormously.
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http://mapwarper.net
but I'm not sure if it can handle your map's projection.

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I´m working with different graph algorithms, and for testing, and see the results, i need to visualize the graph.
I´m trying to use graphviz for visualization, but i dont want to use any Layout Engine, just use the real coordinates of the points.
For example: some TSPLIB instances have coordinates like: 1.54400e+04 8.88800e+03
Is this posible? should i use another tool?
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Define the nodes like
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Try GoogleCharts
http://code.google.com/apis/chart/

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