The inital scene is like the following image, here are an axes actor and an irregular 3D model. We want to find all points that are on the model and face the plane which has normal (0, 1, 0) and origin (0, -10, 0). My solution spend a lot time, Read more…
I want to find the inner polydata which are surrounded by six planes in the above image. So the intersect point of the three planes that intersect is important. How to find the intersect point of the three planes? We know the mathematical expression for a plane has the following Read more…
The article shows a way to find the bounding shell of the 3D model in its local coordinate system. Let’s create a cone and an axes actor which displays three axes in the world coordinate system. #include <iostream> #include <vtkSmartPointer.h> #include <vtkSphereSource.h> #include <vtkActor.h> #include <vtkConeSource.h> #include <vtkRenderer.h> #include <vtkRenderWindow.h> Read more…
We have to calculate the vector on the special direction firstly. void CalculateVecComponent(PointStruct originVec, PointStruct &axis0, PointStruct &vecOnAxis) { double cosTheta = originVec.Dot( axis0 ); return axis0*cosTheta; } Project point on line Point GetProjectPtOnDir(Point pt, Point dir, Point startPt) { dir.Unit(); Point ptVector = pt – startPt; double cosTheta = Read more…
I had built VTK-8.1.1 and Qt5.12.1. After installing pyqt, I wrote a simple project and run it, the error message showed that it needs the newer version of Qt 5.15. So I download Qt-5.15.1 from https://download.qt.io/archive/qt , build it, and install all libraries. I didn’t find QtCreator app, therefore I Read more…
Create two half spheres and save them in a vtp file by ParaView. We will use it to explore an algorithm that finds the two separated cut list and sort all points in every list. The original scene is like the following images. Use vtkCutter to create cut lines that Read more…
I want to change the camera’s position and focal point to focus on a small region on the surface of the sphere. The parameters viewUp direction, focal point, position, and parallel scale are important for our target. Our scene comes from a previous article VTK – Find Partial Region And Read more…
How to create a local coordinate system and show it? We define the local coordinate system has its own x-axis, y-axis, z-axis, and origin. We call the left coordinate system L1 and the right coordinate system L2. Regard L1 as the world coordinate system in VTK, the other one L2 Read more…
We can use vtkButtonWidget to create 2D buttons in the render window. The vtkWidgetRepresentation object controls the button’s position and show button pictures. Write our class ButtonCallBack that inherits vtkCommand and use it to listen for vtkCommand::StateChangedEvent, then we can add our button click function in it. Finally, the widget Read more…