Ah, yes, I remember now... I came across that example and had trouble
getting the off screen rendering to work. I will try again, especially
since I was on VTK 5.10 when I tried previously. I'll report back if I have
any success with it.

Thanks!

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Khlebnikov, Rostislav <
[email protected]> wrote:

>  You might find this interesting:
>  http://www.itk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/PolyData/ExternalContour
>
>  Probably not the most efficient approach but it should work.
>
>  Rostislav.
>
>
>
>
> On 1 Oct 2014, at 06:40, "Taylor Braun-Jones" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>   I'm also very interested in something along these lines. Sebastian,
> your silhouette idea using vtkPolyDataSilhouette is a bit closer to what
> I'm going for but still not quite there. When I experimented
> with vtkPolyDataSilhouette a while back I could not find any way to NOT
> draw a silhouette of interior features. In other words, just draw the
> exterior contour shape without any details inside that shape. In the VTK
> example with a simple sphere, this is not an issue, but if you have, say, a
> CAD model of some irregular shape then vtkPolyDataSilhouette will generate
> interior silhouette lines because "a silhouette is generated wherever the
> surface's normal is orthogonal to the view direction".
>
>  Any ideas for solving this problem? Have I overlooked any existing
> solution in VTK? Or should I look into implementing a feature enhancement
> to the existing vtkPolyDataSilhouette filter?
>
>  Regards,
> Taylor
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Sebastian Ordas <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> We could also render the silhouette (
>> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/PolyData/Silhouette) which
>> would use the current camera position in the 3D view
>> This would go in the line of Rostislav's 3D node picking approach (Bug
>> 1447 - picking of data tree nodes via vtk prop picker)
>> The selected objects could get their silhouette highlighted, like e.g. in
>> Blender.
>>
>> best regards,
>> sebastian
>>
>>
>> On 29/09/2014 03:58 p.m., Wegner wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rostislav,
>> I also wanted to enhance surface visualization by the edges so I can see
>> the opaque surface and the edges! I didn't yet have time for it. I would
>> absolutely vote for this feature / adaption!
>> ;) Ingmar
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Rostislav Khlebnikov <[email protected]>
>> <[email protected]>schrieb:
>>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> for me it was very useful to render the surface with edges. For that I
>>> basically followed this simple example:
>>> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Visualization/ColorActorEdges,
>>> making changes to vtk surface mapper 3d (added two properties - edge
>>> visibility & edge color and set the vtkProperty accordingly in the
>>> mapper).
>>> But it didn't work at first. It turned out that the problem is the use
>>> of vtkOpenGLPolyDataMapper. But according to VTK docs,
>>> vtkOpenGLPolyDataMapper is deprecated and replaced by
>>> vtkPainterPolyDataMapper. When changing the vtkOpenGLPolyDataMapper to
>>> vtkPainterPolyDataMapper in surface mapper, the edges were rendered
>>> correctly. Is there any reason to hold on to the deprecated
>>> vtkOpenGLPolyDataMapper? If not - I can easily give you the changes.
>>>
>>> Rostislav.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Slashdot TV. Videos for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.
>>>
>>> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> mitk-users mailing list
>>> [email protected]
>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mitk-users
>>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Slashdot TV.  Videos for Nerds.  Stuff that 
>> Matters.http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> mitk-users mailing 
>> [email protected]https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mitk-users
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer
>> Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports
>> Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper
>> Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer
>>
>> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk
>> _______________________________________________
>> mitk-users mailing list
>> [email protected]
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mitk-users
>>
>>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer
> Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports
> Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper
> Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer
>
> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk
>
>  _______________________________________________
> mitk-users mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mitk-users
>
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer
Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports
Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper
Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer
http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk
_______________________________________________
mitk-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mitk-users

Reply via email to