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Programming With VTK

This document provides an overview of the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) library. It describes VTK's core functionality for 3D graphics, image processing, and visualization. The document outlines VTK's architecture, main classes, and provides examples of creating a basic "hello world" application and using VTK to load and render different data types. It also summarizes some advanced VTK topics like events, input/output, widgets, animation, and parallel visualization capabilities. Resources for learning more about VTK are provided.

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Programming With VTK

This document provides an overview of the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) library. It describes VTK's core functionality for 3D graphics, image processing, and visualization. The document outlines VTK's architecture, main classes, and provides examples of creating a basic "hello world" application and using VTK to load and render different data types. It also summarizes some advanced VTK topics like events, input/output, widgets, animation, and parallel visualization capabilities. Resources for learning more about VTK are provided.

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Weiguang Guan

Sharcnet
Draw a cube using OpenGL
Top face: Z
P1 P2
glBegin(GL_POLYGON);
P4 P3
glVertex3f( -0.5, -0.5, 0.5); // P1
Y
glVertex3f( -0.5, 0.5, 0.5); // P2
glVertex3f( 0.5, 0.5, 0.5); // P3
glVertex3f( 0.5, -0.5, 0.5); // P4 X
glEnd();
More Primitives
 Cone

 Cylinder

 Sphere
Outline
 Overview of VTK
 Basics of VTK
 A “hello world” application
 VTK architecture
 VTK’s main classes
 More applications
 Advanced topics
 Resources
Overview of VTK
 Created in 1993
 Open Source maintained by Kitware Inc
 Powerful high-level visualization library
 3D graphics
 Image processing
 Visualization
 Cross platform (Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOS)
 2627 C++ classes (version 6.1)
 Tcl, Java, Python wrappers
Overview of VTK (cont.)
 Shorter code/more effecient
 Many users/code contributors
 Active development
 Visualization of large-scale data
 Well-documented and resources
Basics of VTK
 vtkDataObject
 vtkImageData
 vtkRectilinearGrid
 vtkStructuredGrid
 vtkPolydata
 vtkUnstructuredGrid
Basics of VTK (cont.)
 vtkAlgorithm
 Source
 Procedural sources Source Data object
 Reader sources
 Filter

Data object Filter Data object


Basics of VTK (cont.)
 Connection of sources/filters
filter1->SetInputConnection(source->GetOutputPort())

source Data object filter1

filter2->SetInputConnection(filter1->GetOutputPort())

filter1 Data object filter2

source filter1 filter2


Basics of VTK (cont.)
 Main directories of source tree
 VTK/Common --- Core classes
 VTK/Filtering --- Data processing in pipeline
 VTK/Graphics --- Filters that process 3D data
 VTK/Hybrid --- complex classes
 VTK/Imaging --- Image processing filters
 VTK/IO --- data file reading/writing
 VTK/Parallel --- Parallel processing support
 VTK/Rendering --- various rendering techniques
 VTK/Widgets --- 3D widgets
A “hello world” app
# define source
cone = vtk.vtkConeSource()
cone.SetHeight( 3.0 )
cone.SetRadius( 1.0 )
cone.SetResolution( 10 )

# define mapper
coneMapper = vtk.vtkPolyDataMapper()
coneMapper.SetInputConnection( cone.GetOutputPort() )

#define actor
coneActor = vtk.vtkActor()
coneActor.SetMapper( coneMapper )
A “hello world” app (cont.)
# define renderer
ren= vtk.vtkRenderer()
ren.AddActor( coneActor )
ren.SetBackground( 0.1, 0.2, 0.4 )

# define rendering window


renWin = vtk.vtkRenderWindow()
renWin.AddRenderer( ren )
renWin.SetSize( 300, 300 )

# define interactor
iren = vtk.vtkRenderWindowInteractor()
iren.SetRenderWindow(renWin)
iren.Initialize()
iren.Start()
A “hello world” app (cont.)
 Add another primitive
 Set color
 Set position
 Set orientation

http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkConeSour
ce.html
VTK architecture

Actor #1
Actor #2
Actor #3 Viewport #2
vtkRenderer #1
Viewport #1 Actor #4
Actor #5
vtkRenderer #2
vtkRenderWindow

vtkRenderWindowInteractor
VTK architecture (cont.)
 VTK processing unit (vtkAlgorithm) Source
 Time stamp of latest update
 Time stamp of latest modification Filter #1
 VTK “lazy-update” scheme

Update request
Data flow
 Up-stream Update()
 Down-stream RequestData() Filter #N

Mapper

Actor
VTK’s main classes
 vtkProp (vtkActor, vtkVolume, vtkActor2D): position,
scaling, orientation
 vtkAbstractMapper (vtkPolyDataMapper,
vtkFixedPointVolumeRayCastMapper): rendering
 vtkProperty: appearance such as color, opacity, surface
optical property
 vtkCamera: eye position, focal point, clipping planes, view
frustum
 vtkLight: specification of lights
 vtkRenderer: holds props, camera, lights
 vtkRenderWindow: windowing
 vtkRenderWindowInteractor: rotating, moving, scaling
More applications
 Load and render STL data
 Load and render 3DS data
 Load and render medical image data
Advanced topics
 Event observers and callback methods
AddObserver(Event, Callback)
 StartEvent
 EndEvent
 ProgressEvent
 ErrorEvent
 WarningEvent
 Other events (picking, dragging, selecting,
keyboard/mouse, or user-defined events)
Advanced topics
 I/O
 Readers/Writers (load/save a specific dataset. e.g.,
vtkMultiBlockPLOT3DReader, vtkIVWriter)
 Importers/Exporters (import/export whole scene. e.g.,
vtk3DSImporter, vtkIVExporter)
 Screenshots (bmp, png, jpeg, tiff, etc)
 Movies (vtkMPEG2Writer)
Advanced topics (cont.)
 Widgets
 vtkScalarBarWidget
 vtkPointWidget
 vtkLineWidget
 vtkPlaneWidget
 vtkBoxWidget
 vtkImagePlaneWidget
 vtkSphereWidget
 vtkSplineWidget
Advanced topics (cont.)
 Animation
 vtkAnimationScene
 vtkAnimationCue
Advanced topics (cont.)
 Parallel visualization
 Multi-threading
 MPI-based Parallelism
Resources
 Official web www.vtk.org
 Documentation
http://www.vtk.org/VTK/help/documentation.html
 Wiki http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK
 Mailing lists
 vtkusers@vtk.org
 vtk-developers@vtk.org
 Examples
Resources
 Textbook “Visualization Toolkit: An Object-Oriented
Approach to 3D Graphics”
 “VTK User’s Guide”
Qestions?

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