There are three adjustment stages of the cone in our test. : rotate the cone and make it bigger. : translate the cone after : translate the cone from the original position. Original Scene Create an initial scene like the following image. The red Read more…
The article shows how to move a model on the surface of the other big one.I planed to move the cube on the surface of a big superquadric in the mouse left press moving event. Let’s build an original scene. Created a superquadric source object in ParaView and saved it Read more…
This post introduces a way to find the biggest plane on the 3D model. We expand the initial cell by comparing its normal with neighbor’s normal. It indicates they are on a plane if the two normals of cells are approximately equal. I use vtkOBBTree to find the min axes Read more…
The article is based on How to use the OpenCV parallel_for_ to parallelize your code, the example project uses OpenCV parallel_for_ to speed up the computing process. Now I plan to use the algorithm class vtkSMPTools in VTK to get the same positive effect. The unit computing task is put Read more…
We want to put points on the three-dimensional model sometimes, it’s better if these control points can be moved around the item and project generates a new interpolation line dynamically. VTK provides a tool for us to do it easily. The following content shows two scenarios about point placer, both Read more…
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…