Reflection

VTKEx/Cxx/PolyData/Reflection

Description

Note

This example uses vtkReflectionFilter, which outputs a vtkDataObject. For an example that returns a vtkPolyData, see TransformPolyData.

Other languages

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Code

Reflection.cxx

#include <vtkSmartPointer.h>
#include <vtkReflectionFilter.h>

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

int main(int, char *[])
{
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkNamedColors> colors =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkNamedColors>::New();

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkConeSource> coneSource = 
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkConeSource>::New();
  coneSource->Update();

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper> coneMapper = 
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper>::New();
  coneMapper->SetInputConnection(coneSource->GetOutputPort());
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor> coneActor = 
      vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor>::New();
  coneActor->SetMapper(coneMapper);
  coneActor->GetProperty()->SetColor(colors->GetColor3d("Mint").GetData());

  // Reflection
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkReflectionFilter> reflectionFilter = 
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkReflectionFilter>::New();
  reflectionFilter->SetInputConnection(coneSource->GetOutputPort());
  reflectionFilter->CopyInputOff();
  reflectionFilter->Update();

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkDataSetMapper> reflectionMapper = 
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkDataSetMapper>::New();
  reflectionMapper->SetInputConnection(reflectionFilter->GetOutputPort());
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor> reflectionActor = 
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor>::New();
  reflectionActor->SetMapper(reflectionMapper);
  reflectionActor->GetProperty()->SetColor(colors->GetColor3d("Tomato").GetData());

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

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

  // Add the actor to the scene
  renderer->AddActor(coneActor);
  renderer->AddActor(reflectionActor);
  renderer->SetBackground(colors->GetColor3d("Burlywood").GetData());

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

CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.3 FATAL_ERROR)

project(Reflection)

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

Download and Build Reflection

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

cd Reflection/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:

./Reflection

WINDOWS USERS

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