VTK/Examples/Cxx/Visualization/QuadraticSurface

This example demonstrates how to create and display a quadratic surface.

QuadraticSurface.cxx

#include <vtkSmartPointer.h>
#include <vtkQuadric.h>
#include <vtkSampleFunction.h>
#include <vtkContourFilter.h>
#include <vtkActor.h>
#include <vtkProperty.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindow.h>
#include <vtkRenderer.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h>
#include <vtkPolyDataMapper.h>

int main(int, char *[])
{
  // Create the quadric function definition
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkQuadric> quadric =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkQuadric>::New();
  quadric->SetCoefficients(.5,1,.2,0,.1,0,0,.2,0,0);
 
  // Sample the quadric function
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkSampleFunction> sample =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkSampleFunction>::New();
  sample->SetSampleDimensions(50,50,50);
  sample->SetImplicitFunction(quadric);
  double xmin = 0, xmax=1, ymin=0, ymax=1, zmin=0, zmax=1;
  sample->SetModelBounds(xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, zmin, zmax);
 
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkContourFilter> contourFilter =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkContourFilter>::New();
  contourFilter->SetInputConnection(sample->GetOutputPort());
  contourFilter->GenerateValues(1, 1.0, 1.0);
  contourFilter->Update();
  
  // Visualize
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper> mapper = 
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper>::New();
  mapper->SetInputConnection(contourFilter->GetOutputPort());
 
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor> actor = 
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor>::New();
  actor->SetMapper(mapper);
 
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer> renderer = 
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer>::New();
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow> renderWindow = 
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow>::New();
  renderWindow->AddRenderer(renderer);
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor> renderWindowInteractor = 
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor>::New();
  renderWindowInteractor->SetRenderWindow(renderWindow);
 
  renderer->AddActor(actor);
  renderer->SetBackground(.3, .6, .3); // Background color green
 
  renderWindow->Render();
  renderWindowInteractor->Start();	
 
  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

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CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)

PROJECT(QuadraticSurface)

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

add_executable(QuadraticSurface MACOSX_BUNDLE QuadraticSurface.cxx)

if(VTK_LIBRARIES)
  target_link_libraries(QuadraticSurface ${VTK_LIBRARIES})
else()
  target_link_libraries(QuadraticSurface vtkHybrid vtkWidgets)
endif()

Download and Build QuadraticSurface

Click here to download QuadraticSurface. and its CMakeLists.txt file.

Once the tarball QuadraticSurface.tar has been downloaded and extracted,

cd QuadraticSurface/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:

./QuadraticSurface

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.