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# ExtractLargestIsosurface

VTKEx/CSharp/Modelling/ExtractLargestIsosurface

### Description

- Contributed by: Jinyoung Hwang

This example reads a structured points dataset stored in a .vtk file and constructs a 3D model using vtkMarchingCubes. vtkPolyDataConnectivityFilter is used to extract the largest isosurface.

Data is available at:

1. test.vtk: http://web.kaist.ac.kr/~hjy/test.vtk

2. brainweb.img: http://web.kaist.ac.kr/~hjy/brainweb.img

3. brainweb.hdr: http://web.kaist.ac.kr/~hjy/brainweb.hdr

Second and third datasets can be downloaded from BrainWeb, which is free of charge in use for a research. "test.vtk" was converted from "brainweb.img" using a program by Erik Vidholm (http://www.cb.uu.se/~erik/vtk/rawToVTK.cpp).

The examples expects 2 or 3 argments:

     ExtractLargestIsosurface InputFilename Threshold ExtractLargest
      if ExtractLargest is omitted or 1, the largest isosurface is extracted
      if ExtractLargest is 0, all of the isosurfaces are extracted

Try

    ExtractLargestIsosurface test.vtk 50 1

and compare the results to

     ExtractLargestIsosurface test.vtk 50 0

A tutorial on how to setup a Windows Forms Application utilizing ActiViz.NET can be found here: Setup a Windows Forms Application to use ActiViz.NET

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### Code

ExtractLargestIsosurface.cs

    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.ComponentModel;
    using System.Windows.Forms;
    using System.Diagnostics;

    using Kitware.VTK;

    namespace ActiViz.Examples {
       public partial class Form1 : Form {
          public Form1() {
             InitializeComponent();
          }

          private void renderWindowControl1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {
             try {
                // don't forget to adapt the file path
                ExtractLargestIsoSurface("test.vtk", 50, true);
             }
             catch(Exception ex) {
                MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "Exception", MessageBoxButtons.OK);
             }
          }

          private void ExtractLargestIsoSurface(string filePath, double threshold, bool extractLargest) {
             // Load data
             vtkStructuredPointsReader reader = vtkStructuredPointsReader.New();
             reader.SetFileName(filePath);

             // Create a 3D model using marching cubes
             vtkMarchingCubes mc = vtkMarchingCubes.New();
             mc.SetInputConnection(reader.GetOutputPort());
             mc.ComputeNormalsOn();
             mc.ComputeGradientsOn();
             mc.SetValue(0, threshold);  // second value acts as threshold

             // To remain largest region
             vtkPolyDataConnectivityFilter confilter = vtkPolyDataConnectivityFilter.New();
             confilter.SetInputConnection(mc.GetOutputPort());
             confilter.SetExtractionModeToLargestRegion();

             // Create a mapper
             vtkPolyDataMapper mapper = vtkPolyDataMapper.New();
             if(extractLargest) {
                mapper.SetInputConnection(confilter.GetOutputPort());
             }
             else {
                mapper.SetInputConnection(mc.GetOutputPort());
             }

             mapper.ScalarVisibilityOff();    // utilize actor's property I set

             // Visualize
             vtkActor actor = vtkActor.New();
             actor.GetProperty().SetColor(1, 1, 1);
             actor.SetMapper(mapper);

             // get a reference to the renderwindow of our renderWindowControl1
             vtkRenderWindow renderWindow = renderWindowControl1.RenderWindow;
             // renderer
             vtkRenderer renderer = renderWindow.GetRenderers().GetFirstRenderer();
             // add our actor to the renderer
             renderer.AddActor(actor);
          }
       }
    }