Polygon

VTKExamples/Cxx/GeometricObjects/Polygon

Description

The polygon is a primary two-dimensional cell. The polygon is defined by an ordered list of three or more points lying in a plane. The polygon normal is implicitly defined by a counterclockwise ordering of its points using the right-hand rule.

The polygon may be nonconvex, but may not have internal loops, and it cannot self-intersect. The polygon has n edges, where n is the number of points in the polygon.

Other Languages

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

Code

Polygon.cxx

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

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

  // Setup four points
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkPoints> points =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkPoints>::New();
  points->InsertNextPoint(0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
  points->InsertNextPoint(1.0, 0.0, 0.0);
  points->InsertNextPoint(1.0, 1.0, 0.0);
  points->InsertNextPoint(0.0, 1.0, 0.0);

  // Create the polygon
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolygon> polygon =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolygon>::New();
  polygon->GetPointIds()->SetNumberOfIds(4); //make a quad
  polygon->GetPointIds()->SetId(0, 0);
  polygon->GetPointIds()->SetId(1, 1);
  polygon->GetPointIds()->SetId(2, 2);
  polygon->GetPointIds()->SetId(3, 3);

  // Add the polygon to a list of polygons
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkCellArray> polygons =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkCellArray>::New();
  polygons->InsertNextCell(polygon);

  // Create a PolyData
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyData> polygonPolyData =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyData>::New();
  polygonPolyData->SetPoints(points);
  polygonPolyData->SetPolys(polygons);

  // Create a mapper and actor
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper> mapper =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper>::New();
  mapper->SetInputData(polygonPolyData);

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

  // Visualize
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer> renderer =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer>::New();
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow> renderWindow =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow>::New();
  renderWindow->SetWindowName("Polygon");
  renderWindow->AddRenderer(renderer);
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor> renderWindowInteractor =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor>::New();
  renderWindowInteractor->SetRenderWindow(renderWindow);

  renderer->AddActor(actor);
  renderer->SetBackground(colors->GetColor3d("Salmon").GetData());
  renderWindow->Render();
  renderWindowInteractor->Start();

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.3 FATAL_ERROR)

project(Polygon)

find_package(VTK COMPONENTS 
  vtkCommonColor
  vtkCommonCore
  vtkCommonDataModel
  vtkInteractionStyle
  vtkRenderingCore
  vtkRenderingFreeType
  vtkRenderingOpenGL2 QUIET)
if (NOT VTK_FOUND)
  message("Skipping Polygon: ${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(Polygon MACOSX_BUNDLE Polygon.cxx )
  target_link_libraries(Polygon PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES})
else ()
  # include all components
  add_executable(Polygon MACOSX_BUNDLE Polygon.cxx )
  target_link_libraries(Polygon PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES})
  # vtk_module_autoinit is needed
  vtk_module_autoinit(
    TARGETS Polygon
    MODULES ${VTK_LIBRARIES}
    )
endif ()

Download and Build Polygon

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

cd Polygon/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:

./Polygon

WINDOWS USERS

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