ConvexPointSet

VTKEx/Cxx/GeometricObjects/ConvexPointSet

Description

vtkConvexPointSet object represents a 3D cell defined by a convex set of points. An example of such a cell is an octant (from an octree). vtkConvexPointSet uses the ordered triangulations approach vtkOrderedTriangulator) to create triangulations guaranteed to be compatible across shared faces.

Other languages

See (Python), (Java)

Question

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Code

ConvexPointSet.cxx

#include <vtkActor.h>
#include <vtkCamera.h>
#include <vtkConvexPointSet.h>
#include <vtkDataSetMapper.h>
#include <vtkGlyph3DMapper.h>
#include <vtkNamedColors.h>
#include <vtkPoints.h>
#include <vtkProperty.h>
#include <vtkRenderer.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindow.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h>
#include <vtkShrinkFilter.h>
#include <vtkSmartPointer.h>
#include <vtkSphereSource.h>
#include <vtkUnstructuredGrid.h>

int main (int, char *[])
{
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkConvexPointSet> cps =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkConvexPointSet>::New();
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkPoints> points =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkPoints>::New();
  points->InsertNextPoint( 0, 0, 0);
  points->InsertNextPoint( 1, 0, 0);
  points->InsertNextPoint( 1, 1, 0);
  points->InsertNextPoint( 0, 1, 0);
  points->InsertNextPoint( 0, 0, 1);
  points->InsertNextPoint( 1, 0, 1);
  points->InsertNextPoint( 1, 1, 1);
  points->InsertNextPoint( 0, 1, 1);
  points->InsertNextPoint( 0.5, 0, 0);
  points->InsertNextPoint( 1, 0.5, 0);
  points->InsertNextPoint( 0.5, 1, 0);
  points->InsertNextPoint( 0, 0.5, 0);
  points->InsertNextPoint( 0.5, 0.5, 0);

  for (int i = 0; i < 13; ++i)
  {
    cps->GetPointIds()->InsertId(i,i);
  }

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkUnstructuredGrid> ug =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkUnstructuredGrid>::New();
  ug->Allocate(1,1);
  ug->InsertNextCell(cps->GetCellType(), cps->GetPointIds());
  ug->SetPoints(points);

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

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkDataSetMapper> mapper =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkDataSetMapper>::New();
  mapper->SetInputData(ug);

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor> actor =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor>::New();
  actor->SetMapper(mapper);
  actor->GetProperty()->SetColor(colors->GetColor3d("Tomato").GetData());
  actor->GetProperty()->SetLineWidth(3);
  actor->GetProperty()->EdgeVisibilityOn();

  // Glyph the points
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkSphereSource> sphere =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkSphereSource>::New();
  sphere->SetPhiResolution(21);
  sphere->SetThetaResolution(21);
  sphere->SetRadius(.03);

  // Create a polydata to store everything in
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyData> polyData =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyData>::New();
  polyData->SetPoints(points);

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkGlyph3DMapper> pointMapper =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkGlyph3DMapper>::New();
  pointMapper->SetInputData(polyData);
  pointMapper->SetSourceConnection(sphere->GetOutputPort());

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor> pointActor =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor>::New();
  pointActor->SetMapper(pointMapper);
  pointActor->GetProperty()->SetColor(colors->GetColor3d("Peacock").GetData());

  //Create a renderer, render window, and interactor
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer> renderer =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer>::New();
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow> renderWindow =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow>::New();
  renderWindow->SetWindowName("Convex Point Set");
  renderWindow->AddRenderer(renderer);
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor> renderWindowInteractor =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor>::New();
  renderWindowInteractor->SetRenderWindow(renderWindow);

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

  renderer->ResetCamera();
  renderer->GetActiveCamera()->Azimuth(210);
  renderer->GetActiveCamera()->Elevation(30);
  renderer->ResetCameraClippingRange();

  //Render and interact
  renderWindow->SetSize(640, 480);  
  renderWindow->Render();
  renderWindowInteractor->Start();

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.3 FATAL_ERROR)

project(ConvexPointSet)

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

Download and Build ConvexPointSet

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

cd ConvexPointSet/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:

./ConvexPointSet

WINDOWS USERS

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