Cone

VTKEx/Cxx/GeometricObjects/Cone

Description

vtkConeSource object creates a cone centered at a specified point and pointing in a specified direction. (By default, the center is the origin and the direction is the x-axis.)

Depending upon the resolution of this object, different representations are created. If resolution=0 a line is created; if resolution=1, a single triangle is created; if resolution=2, two crossed triangles are created.

For resolution > 2, a 3D cone (with resolution number of sides) is created.

It also is possible to control whether the bottom of the cone is capped with a (resolution-sided) polygon, and to specify the height and radius of the cone.

Other languages

See (Python), (Java), (CSharp)

Question

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Code

Cone.cxx

#include <vtkSmartPointer.h>
#include <vtkConeSource.h>

#include <vtkActor.h>
#include <vtkPolyData.h>
#include <vtkPolyDataMapper.h>
#include <vtkProperty.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindow.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h>
#include <vtkRenderer.h>
#include <vtkNamedColors.h>

int main(int, char *[])
{
  //Create a cone
  auto coneSource =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkConeSource>::New();
  coneSource->Update();

  //Create a mapper and actor
  auto mapper =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper>::New();
  mapper->SetInputConnection(coneSource->GetOutputPort());

  auto colors =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkNamedColors>::New();

  auto actor =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor>::New();
  actor->SetMapper(mapper);
  actor->GetProperty()->SetDiffuseColor(colors->GetColor3d("bisque").GetData());

  //Create a renderer, render window, and interactor
  auto renderer =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer>::New();
  auto renderWindow =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow>::New();
  renderWindow->AddRenderer(renderer);
  renderWindow->SetSize(640, 480);

  auto renderWindowInteractor =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor>::New();
  renderWindowInteractor->SetRenderWindow(renderWindow);

  //Add the actors to the scene
  renderer->AddActor(actor);
  renderer->SetBackground(colors->GetColor3d("Salmon").GetData());

  //Render and interact
  renderWindow->Render();
  renderWindowInteractor->Start();

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.3 FATAL_ERROR)

project(Cone)

find_package(VTK COMPONENTS 
  vtkvtkCommonColor
  vtkvtkCommonCore
  vtkvtkCommonDataModel
  vtkvtkFiltersSources
  vtkvtkInteractionStyle
  vtkvtkRenderingContextOpenGL2
  vtkvtkRenderingCore
  vtkvtkRenderingFreeType
  vtkvtkRenderingGL2PSOpenGL2
  vtkvtkRenderingOpenGL2 QUIET)
if (NOT VTK_FOUND)
  message("Skipping Cone: ${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(Cone MACOSX_BUNDLE Cone.cxx )
  target_link_libraries(Cone PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES})
else ()
  # include all components
  add_executable(Cone MACOSX_BUNDLE Cone.cxx )
  target_link_libraries(Cone PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES})
  # vtk_module_autoinit is needed
  vtk_module_autoinit(
    TARGETS Cone
    MODULES ${VTK_LIBRARIES}
    )
endif ()

Download and Build Cone

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

cd Cone/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:

./Cone

WINDOWS USERS

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