The article shows how to create a simple vtk render window project. We need cmake and the visualization toolkit installed. This example uses C plus plus programming language to create and show a cone in the 3D world. CMakeLists.txt cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8) project(mytest) find_package( VTK REQUIRED ) include( ${VTK_USE_FILE} ) add_executable(${PROJECT_NAME} Read more…
The filter vtkWarpScalar can help us to move the point along point normal by the scalar amount times the scale factor. We can change the size of the original model with it as long as there are normals in data. The following example has two renderers, the left renderer shows Read more…
We can use VTK observer-command mechanism to listen to slider value changing event and override our responding method void Execute(vtkObject *caller, unsigned long, void*) to change target item’s size. It’s easy to implement with the subclass of vtkCommand and vtkSliderWidget. The following example shows how to do it. I add Read more…
AddInputConnection is a public interface provided by vtkAlgorithm. We can use it to combine multiple input sources to get a final 3D model with some special algorithm class. The following example has two VTK algorithm classes which show us the multiple source connections. int main() { vtkSmartPointer<vtkSphereSource> sphereSource = vtkSmartPointer<vtkSphereSource>::New(); Read more…
vtkInteractorEventRecorder can be used to record VTK events in a single file and replay it by pass these events to vtkRenderWindowInteractor. Record The following code shows how to use it to save all interactive information into a file. We rotate the cone and switch its surface status between wireframe and Read more…
It’s a simple job for us to make bounding box visible in traditional VTK render window. We can SetCurrentRenderer for renderWindowInteractor->GetInteractorStyle() and press P to show it. #include <iostream> #include <vtkSmartPointer.h> #include <vtkSphereSource.h> #include <vtkActor.h> #include <vtkConeSource.h> #include <vtkRenderer.h> #include <vtkRenderWindow.h> #include <vtkPolyDataMapper.h> #include <vtkProperty.h> #include <vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h> #include <vtkLight.h> #include Read more…
The article describes method Tiled Rendering refers to VTKUsersGuide The class vtkRenderLargeImage breaks up the whole rendering into separated parts. The different pieces are handled and combined into a final large image. The interface SetMagnification of vtkRenderLargeImage control how much to larger the original image. vtkRenderLargeImage renderLarge renderLarge SetInput ren Read more…
The instance of vtkImporter contains vtkRenderWindow and vtkRenderer objects. It supports to recover original scene including lights, cameras, actors, etc. Here is a simple example which imports 3D studio file and shows the whole scene. import vtk DataRoot = “/Users/weiyang/Downloads/VTKData” importer = vtk.vtk3DSImporter() importer.ComputeNormalsOn() importer.SetFileName( DataRoot + “/Data/iflamigm.3ds” ) importer.Read() Read more…
vtkReverseSense can help us to reverse the direction of point normals and cell normals. The following code shows a simple example which display vertexes’ normals by cones in a sphere. Here is its original geometric states. #include <iostream> #include <vtkSmartPointer.h> #include <vtkSphereSource.h> #include <vtkActor.h> #include <vtkConeSource.h> #include <vtkRenderer.h> #include <vtkRenderWindow.h> Read more…