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HanoiInitial

VTKEx/Cxx/Visualization/HanoiInitial

Description¶

Towers of Hanoi, initial configuration,

Info

See Figure 12-20a in Chapter 12 the VTK Textbook.

Other languages

See (Python)

Question

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Code¶

HanoiInitial.cxx

#include <vtkActor.h>
#include <vtkCallbackCommand.h>
#include <vtkCamera.h>
#include <vtkCylinderSource.h>
#include <vtkMath.h>
#include <vtkMinimalStandardRandomSequence.h>
#include <vtkNamedColors.h>
#include <vtkPNGWriter.h>
#include <vtkPlaneSource.h>
#include <vtkPolyDataMapper.h>
#include <vtkProperty.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindow.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h>
#include <vtkRenderer.h>
#include <vtkRendererCollection.h>
#include <vtkSmartPointer.h>
#include <vtkWindowToImageFilter.h>

// Start this program with the parameter: -c 1
#include "Hanoi.cxx"

CMakeLists.txt¶

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.3 FATAL_ERROR)

project(HanoiInitial)

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

Download and Build HanoiInitial¶

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

cd HanoiInitial/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:

./HanoiInitial

WINDOWS USERS

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