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ViewFrogA

VTKEx/Cxx/Visualization/ViewFrogA

Description¶

Frog witn no skin or skelton.

Info

See Figure 12-9c in Chapter 12 the VTK Textbook.

Other languages

See (Python)

Question

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Code¶

ViewFrogA.cxx

#include <vtkActor.h>
#include <vtkCamera.h>
#include <vtkImageGaussianSmooth.h>
#include <vtkImageThreshold.h>
#include <vtkLookupTable.h>
#include <vtkMarchingCubes.h>
#include <vtkMetaImageReader.h>
#include <vtkNamedColors.h>
#include <vtkPolyDataMapper.h>
#include <vtkPolyDataNormals.h>
#include <vtkProperty.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindow.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h>
#include <vtkRenderer.h>
#include <vtkStripper.h>
#include <vtkWindowedSincPolyDataFilter.h>

#include "ViewFrog.cxx"

CMakeLists.txt¶

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.3 FATAL_ERROR)

project(ViewFrogA)

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

Download and Build ViewFrogA¶

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

cd ViewFrogA/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:

./ViewFrogA

WINDOWS USERS

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