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These cell types are inherited from VTK, but they are basically the same
as quad and hexahedron, respectively. The only useful difference is that
pixel and voxel are supposed to be axis aligned, but you cannot
determine that by the cell shape alone (at least not just from the cell
set).
A big issue with these is that their indexing is different that of quad
and hex. The development team had a long discussion about the benefits
of the alternate indexing, but after consulting with Berk Geveci and
Will Schroder from the VTK team, that indexing is not really taken
advantage of at the cell level. Thus, it is really just a nuisance in
VTK-m.
