# GetCellCenter

VTKExamples/Cxx/ImageData/GetCellCenter

### Description

Unfortunately this function is not built in directly, but rather quite convoluted to call. This is an easy to use wrapper.

### Code

GetCellCenter.cxx

    #include <vtkSmartPointer.h>
    #include <vtkCell.h>
    #include <vtkImageData.h>

    static void GetCellCenter(vtkImageData* imageData, const unsigned int cellId,
                              double center[3]);

    int main(int, char *[])
    {
      // Create an image data
      vtkSmartPointer<vtkImageData> imageData = vtkSmartPointer<vtkImageData>::New();

      // Specify the size of the image data
      imageData->SetDimensions(3,3,2); // This will cause 18 points and 4 cells
      imageData->SetSpacing(1.0, 1.0, 1.0);
      imageData->SetOrigin(0.0, 0.0, 0.0);

      std::cout << "Number of points: " << imageData->GetNumberOfPoints() << std::endl;
      std::cout << "Number of cells: " << imageData->GetNumberOfCells() << std::endl;

      double center[3] = {0,0,0};
      for(vtkIdType cellId = 0; cellId < imageData->GetNumberOfCells(); ++cellId)
      {
        GetCellCenter(imageData, cellId, center);

        std::cout << "Cell " << cellId << " center: " << center[0] << " "
                  << center[1] << " " << center[2] << std::endl;
      }

      return EXIT_SUCCESS;
    }

    void GetCellCenter(vtkImageData* imageData, const unsigned int cellId, double center[3])
    {
      double pcoords[3] = {0,0,0};
      double *weights = new double [imageData->GetMaxCellSize()];
      vtkCell* cell = imageData->GetCell(cellId);
      int subId = cell->GetParametricCenter(pcoords);
      cell->EvaluateLocation(subId, pcoords, center, weights);
    }

### CMakeLists.txt

    cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)

    PROJECT(GetCellCenter)

    find_package(VTK REQUIRED)
    include(${VTK_USE_FILE})

    add_executable(GetCellCenter MACOSX_BUNDLE GetCellCenter.cxx )

    target_link_libraries(GetCellCenter ${VTK_LIBRARIES})

### Download and Build GetCellCenter

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

    cd GetCellCenter/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:

    ./GetCellCenter

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