def get_vtk_type_map():
    """Get the the VTK Type Map as specified in ``vtkType.h``
    """
    return {'': 8, 'vtkPolyData': 0, 'vtkStructuredPoints': 1,
        'vtkStructuredGrid': 2, 'vtkRectilinearGrid': 3,
        'vtkUnstructuredGrid': 4, 'vtkPiecewiseFunction': 5, 'vtkImageData':
        6, 'vtkDataObject': 7, 'vtkPointSet': 9, 'vtkUniformGrid': 10,
        'vtkCompositeDataSet': 11, 'vtkMultiBlockDataSet': 13,
        'vtkHyperOctree': 17, 'vtkTable': 19, 'vtkGraph': 20, 'vtkTree': 21}
