CurvaturesDemo
VTKExamples/Cxx/PolyData/CurvaturesDemo
Description¶
How to get the Gaussian and Mean curvatures of a surface.
Two different surfaces are used in this demonstration with each surface coloured according to its Gaussian and Mean curvatures.
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The first surface is a superquadric surface, this demonstrates the use of extra filters that are needed to get a nice smooth surface.
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The second surface is a parametric surface, in this case the surface has already been triangulated so no extra processing is necessary.
In order to get a nice coloured image, a vtkColorTransferFunction has been used to generate a set of colours for the vtkLookupTable tables. We have used a diverging colour space. Because of the symmetry of the ranges selected for the lookup tables, the white colouration represents a midpoint value whilst the blue represents values less than the midopoint value and red represents colours greater than the midpoint value.
In the case of the Random Hills Gaussian curvature surface, this colouration shows the nature of the surface quite nicely. The blue areas are saddle points (negative Gaussian curvature) and the red areas have a positive Gaussian curvature. In the case of the mean curvature the blue colouration is representing negative curvature perpendicular to one of the principal axes.
This example also demonstrates the use of std::vector's and the linking of the elements of the vectors together to form a pipeline.
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Code¶
CurvaturesDemo.cxx
/* The purpose of this is to demonstrate how to get the Gaussian and Mean curvatures of a surface. Two different surfaces are used in this demonstration with each surface coloured according to its Gaussian and Mean curvatures. The first surface is a superquadric surface, this demonstrates the use of extra filters that are needed to get a nice smooth surface. The second surface is a parametric surface, in this case the surface has already been triangulated so no extra processing is necessary. In order to get a nice coloured image, a vtkColorTransferFunction has been used to generate a set of colours for the vtkLookUp tables. We have used a diverging colour space. Because of the symmetry of the ranges selected for the lookup tables, the white colouration represents a midpoint value whilst the blue represents values less than the midopoint value and red represents colours greater than the midpoint value. In the case of the Random Hills Gaussian Curvature surface, this colouration shows the nature of the surface quite nicely. The blue areas are saddle points (negative Gaussian curvature) and the red areas have a positive Gaussian curvature. In the case of the mean curvature the blue colouration is representing negative curvature perpendicular to one of the principal axes. This example also demonstrates the use of std::vector and the linking of the elements of the vector together to form a pipeline. */ #include <vtkActor.h> #include <vtkActor2D.h> #include <vtkCleanPolyData.h> #include <vtkColorTransferFunction.h> #include <vtkCurvatures.h> #include <vtkLookupTable.h> #include <vtkNamedColors.h> #include <vtkParametricFunctionSource.h> #include <vtkParametricRandomHills.h> #include <vtkPolyDataAlgorithm.h> #include <vtkPolyDataMapper.h> #include <vtkRenderer.h> #include <vtkRenderWindow.h> #include <vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h> #include <vtkSmartPointer.h> #include <vtkSuperquadricSource.h> #include <vtkTextMapper.h> #include <vtkTextProperty.h> #include <vtkTransform.h> #include <vtkTransformFilter.h> #include <vtkTriangleFilter.h> #include <array> #include <vector> int main (int, char *argv[]) { vtkSmartPointer<vtkNamedColors> colors = vtkSmartPointer<vtkNamedColors>::New(); // We are going to handle two different sources. // The first source is a superquadric source. vtkSmartPointer<vtkSuperquadricSource> torus = vtkSmartPointer<vtkSuperquadricSource>::New(); torus->SetCenter(0.0, 0.0, 0.0); torus->SetScale(1.0, 1.0, 1.0); torus->SetPhiResolution(64); torus->SetThetaResolution(64); torus->SetThetaRoundness(1); torus->SetThickness(0.5); torus->SetSize(0.5); torus->SetToroidal(1); // Rotate the torus towards the observer (around the x-axis) vtkSmartPointer<vtkTransform> torusT = vtkSmartPointer<vtkTransform>::New(); torusT->RotateX(55); vtkSmartPointer<vtkTransformFilter> torusTF = vtkSmartPointer<vtkTransformFilter>::New(); torusTF->SetInputConnection(torus->GetOutputPort()); torusTF->SetTransform(torusT); // The quadric is made of strips, so pass it through a triangle filter as // the curvature filter only operates on polys vtkSmartPointer<vtkTriangleFilter> tri = vtkSmartPointer<vtkTriangleFilter>::New(); tri->SetInputConnection(torusTF->GetOutputPort()); // The quadric has nasty discontinuities from the way the edges are generated // so let's pass it though a CleanPolyDataFilter and merge any points which // are coincident, or very close vtkSmartPointer<vtkCleanPolyData> cleaner = vtkSmartPointer<vtkCleanPolyData>::New(); cleaner->SetInputConnection(tri->GetOutputPort()); cleaner->SetTolerance(0.005); // The next source will be a parametric function vtkSmartPointer<vtkParametricRandomHills> rh = vtkSmartPointer<vtkParametricRandomHills>::New(); vtkSmartPointer<vtkParametricFunctionSource> rhFnSrc = vtkSmartPointer<vtkParametricFunctionSource>::New(); rhFnSrc->SetParametricFunction(rh); // Now we have the sources, lets put them into a vector std::vector<vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataAlgorithm> > sources; sources.push_back(cleaner); sources.push_back(cleaner); sources.push_back(rhFnSrc); sources.push_back(rhFnSrc); // Colour transfer function. vtkSmartPointer<vtkColorTransferFunction> ctf = vtkSmartPointer<vtkColorTransferFunction>::New(); ctf->SetColorSpaceToDiverging(); ctf->AddRGBPoint(0.0, colors->GetColor3d("MidnightBlue").GetRed(), colors->GetColor3d("MidnightBlue").GetGreen(), colors->GetColor3d("MidnightBlue").GetBlue()); ctf->AddRGBPoint(1.0, colors->GetColor3d("DarkOrange").GetRed(), colors->GetColor3d("DarkOrange").GetGreen(), colors->GetColor3d("DarkOrange").GetBlue()); // Lookup table. std::vector<vtkSmartPointer<vtkLookupTable> > luts; for(auto idx = 0; idx < sources.size(); ++idx) { vtkSmartPointer<vtkLookupTable> lut = vtkSmartPointer<vtkLookupTable>::New(); lut->SetNumberOfColors(256); for(auto i = 0; i < lut->GetNumberOfColors(); ++i) { std::array<double, 4> color; ctf->GetColor(double(i) / lut->GetNumberOfColors(), color.data()); color[3] = 1.0; lut->SetTableValue(i, color.data()); } if (idx == 0) { lut->SetRange(-10, 10); } else if (idx == 1) { lut->SetRange(0, 4); } else if (idx == 2) { lut->SetRange(-1, 1); } else { lut->SetRange(-1, 1); } lut->Build(); luts.push_back(lut); } std::vector<vtkSmartPointer<vtkCurvatures> > curvatures; for (auto idx = 0; idx < sources.size(); ++idx) { curvatures.push_back(vtkSmartPointer<vtkCurvatures>::New()); if (idx % 2 == 0) { curvatures[idx]->SetCurvatureTypeToGaussian(); } else { curvatures[idx]->SetCurvatureTypeToMean(); } } std::vector<vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer> > renderers; std::vector<vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor> > actors; std::vector<vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper> > mappers; std::vector<vtkSmartPointer<vtkTextMapper> > textmappers; std::vector<vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor2D> > textactors; for (auto idx = 0; idx < sources.size(); ++idx) { mappers.push_back(vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper>::New()); actors.push_back(vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor>::New()); textmappers.push_back(vtkSmartPointer<vtkTextMapper>::New()); textactors.push_back(vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor2D>::New()); renderers.push_back(vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer>::New()); } // Create a common text property. vtkSmartPointer<vtkTextProperty> textProperty = vtkSmartPointer<vtkTextProperty>::New(); textProperty->SetFontSize(24); textProperty->SetJustificationToCentered(); std::vector<std::string> names; names.push_back("Torus - Gaussian Curvature"); names.push_back("Torus - Mean Curvature"); names.push_back("Random Hills - Gaussian Curvature"); names.push_back("Random Hills - Mean Curvature"); // Link the pipeline together. for (auto idx = 0; idx < sources.size(); ++idx) { curvatures[idx]->SetInputConnection(sources[idx]->GetOutputPort()); mappers[idx]->SetInputConnection(curvatures[idx]->GetOutputPort()); mappers[idx]->SetLookupTable(luts[idx]); mappers[idx]->SetUseLookupTableScalarRange(1); actors[idx]->SetMapper(mappers[idx]); textmappers[idx]->SetInput(names[idx].c_str()); textmappers[idx]->SetTextProperty(textProperty); textactors[idx]->SetMapper(textmappers[idx]); textactors[idx]->SetPosition(250, 16); } // Create the RenderWindow // auto rendererSize = 512; auto gridDimensions = 2; vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow> renderWindow = vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow>::New(); renderWindow->SetSize(rendererSize * gridDimensions, rendererSize * gridDimensions); for (auto idx = 0; idx < sources.size(); ++idx) { // Add and position the renders to the render window. for (auto row = 0; row < gridDimensions; ++row) { for (auto col = 0; col < gridDimensions; ++col) { auto idx = row * gridDimensions + col; renderers[idx]->SetViewport(double(col) / gridDimensions, double(gridDimensions - (row + 1)) / gridDimensions, double(col + 1) / gridDimensions, double(gridDimensions - row) / gridDimensions); renderWindow->AddRenderer(renderers[idx]); renderers[idx]->AddActor(actors[idx]); renderers[idx]->AddActor(textactors[idx]); renderers[idx]->SetBackground(colors->GetColor3d("CornflowerBlue").GetData()); } } } vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor> interactor = vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor>::New(); interactor->SetRenderWindow(renderWindow); renderWindow->Render(); interactor->Start(); return EXIT_SUCCESS; }
CMakeLists.txt¶
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.3 FATAL_ERROR) project(CurvaturesDemo) find_package(VTK COMPONENTS vtkCommonColor vtkCommonComputationalGeometry vtkCommonCore vtkCommonExecutionModel vtkCommonTransforms vtkFiltersCore vtkFiltersGeneral vtkFiltersSources vtkInteractionStyle vtkRenderingContextOpenGL2 vtkRenderingCore vtkRenderingFreeType vtkRenderingGL2PSOpenGL2 vtkRenderingOpenGL2 QUIET) if (NOT VTK_FOUND) message("Skipping CurvaturesDemo: ${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(CurvaturesDemo MACOSX_BUNDLE CurvaturesDemo.cxx ) target_link_libraries(CurvaturesDemo PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES}) else () # include all components add_executable(CurvaturesDemo MACOSX_BUNDLE CurvaturesDemo.cxx ) target_link_libraries(CurvaturesDemo PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES}) # vtk_module_autoinit is needed vtk_module_autoinit( TARGETS CurvaturesDemo MODULES ${VTK_LIBRARIES} ) endif ()
Download and Build CurvaturesDemo¶
Click here to download CurvaturesDemo and its CMakeLists.txt file. Once the tarball CurvaturesDemo.tar has been downloaded and extracted,
cd CurvaturesDemo/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:
./CurvaturesDemo
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