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# MarchingCasesA

VTKEx/Cxx/VisualizationAlgorithms/MarchingCasesA

### Description

Marching cubes cases for 3D isosurface generation. The 256 possible cases have been reduced to 15 cases using symmetry. Red vertices are greater than the selected isosurface value.

This example runs the example MarchingCases with the arguments 15 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14.

Info

See Figure 6-6 in Chapter 6 the VTK Textbook.

Other languages

See (Python)

Question

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### Code

MarchingCasesA.cxx

    #include <vtkActor.h>
    #include <vtkCamera.h>
    #include <vtkContourFilter.h>
    #include <vtkCubeSource.h>
    #include <vtkExtractEdges.h>
    #include <vtkFloatArray.h>
    #include <vtkGlyph3D.h>
    #include <vtkIdList.h>
    #include <vtkNamedColors.h>
    #include <vtkPointData.h>
    #include <vtkPoints.h>
    #include <vtkPolyDataMapper.h>
    #include <vtkProperty.h>
    #include <vtkRenderWindow.h>
    #include <vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h>
    #include <vtkRenderer.h>
    #include <vtkShrinkPolyData.h>
    #include <vtkSphereSource.h>
    #include <vtkThresholdPoints.h>
    #include <vtkTransform.h>
    #include <vtkTransformPolyDataFilter.h>
    #include <vtkTubeFilter.h>
    #include <vtkUnstructuredGrid.h>
    #include <vtkVectorText.h>

    #include "MarchingCases.cxx"

### CMakeLists.txt

    cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.3 FATAL_ERROR)

    project(MarchingCasesA)

    find_package(VTK COMPONENTS
      vtkCommonColor
      vtkCommonCore
      vtkCommonDataModel
      vtkCommonTransforms
      vtkFiltersCore
      vtkFiltersExtraction
      vtkFiltersGeneral
      vtkFiltersSources
      vtkInteractionStyle
      vtkRenderingContextOpenGL2
      vtkRenderingCore
      vtkRenderingFreeType
      vtkRenderingGL2PSOpenGL2
      vtkRenderingOpenGL2 QUIET)
    if (NOT VTK_FOUND)
      message("Skipping MarchingCasesA: ${VTK_NOT_FOUND_MESSAGE}")
      return ()
    endif()
    message (STATUS "VTK_VERSION: ${VTK_VERSION}")
    if (VTK_VERSION VERSION_LESS "8.90.0")
      # old system
      include(${VTK_USE_FILE})
      add_executable(MarchingCasesA MACOSX_BUNDLE MarchingCasesA.cxx )
      target_link_libraries(MarchingCasesA PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES})
    else ()
      # include all components
      add_executable(MarchingCasesA MACOSX_BUNDLE MarchingCasesA.cxx )
      target_link_libraries(MarchingCasesA PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES})
      # vtk_module_autoinit is needed
      vtk_module_autoinit(
        TARGETS MarchingCasesA
        MODULES ${VTK_LIBRARIES}
        )
    endif ()

### Download and Build MarchingCasesA

Click here to download MarchingCasesA and its CMakeLists.txt file. Once the tarball MarchingCasesA.tar has been downloaded and extracted,

    cd MarchingCasesA/build

If VTK is installed:

    cmake ..

If VTK is not installed but compiled on your system, you will need to specify the path to your VTK build:

    cmake -DVTK_DIR:PATH=/home/me/vtk_build ..

Build the project:

    make

and run it:

    ./MarchingCasesA

WINDOWS USERS

Be sure to add the VTK bin directory to your path. This will resolve the VTK dll's at run time.