[Insight-users] from image to spatial object : how to install VTK

[Michal Plotkowiak]

but then how should I use Cmake to create a new project?
 My problem is that i installed InsightApplication and when I try to compile 
some of the programs it can't open vtk lib (although, in cmake for 
InsihtApplication I specified the location of VTK dir that I created from 
source code).

So if I install VTK from .exe and then cmake a new project that uses itk and 
vtk lib which dir should I define for VTK_DIR?

many thanks
michal


In message <46AFB839.4090404 at kitware.com> Luis Ibanez 
<luis.ibanez at kitware.com> writes:
> 
> Hi Michal,
> 
> From:
> http://www.vtk.org/get-software.php#latest
> 
> One easy way is to run the installer:
> http://www.vtk.org/files/release/5.0/vtk-5.0.3-win32.exe
> 
> 
>    Regards,
> 
> 
>        Luis
> 
> 
> ---------------------------
> Michal Plotkowiak wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > could someone give me detailed instruction how to install vtk?
> > 
> > many thanks
> > michal
> > 
> > 
> > In message 
<b9e170000707310838u21214002wc042de10061a32e6 at mail.gmail.com> "Dan 
> > Homerick" <danhomerick at gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> >>Hi Michal,
> >>
> >>On 7/31/07, Michal Plotkowiak <michal.plotkowiak at bnc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>thanks Luis for your help. I'm still having some difficulties.
> >>>
> >>>trying to compile programs from InsightApplications/Auxiliary/vtk I got
> >>>the
> >>>following error: fatal error LNK1104:cannot open file vtkRendering.lib
> >>
> >>
> >>You probably need to download and build a copy of VTK, if you haven't
> >>already. If you have already, make sure that cmake is looking in the 
correct
> >>lib directory.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I tried another approach. I took SurfaceExtraction code and added the
> >>>following
> >>>lines:
> >>>
> >>>typedef itk::MeshSpatialObject<MeshType>     MeshSpatialObjectType;
> >>>  MeshSpatialObjectType::Pointer myMeshSpatialObject =
> >>>                                        MeshSpatialObjectType::New();
> >>>  myMeshSpatialObject->SetMesh(meshSource->GetOutput());
> >>>  myMeshSpatialObject->GetMesh();
> >>>
> >>>  typedef itk::SpatialObjectWriter<3> WriterType;
> >>>  WriterType::Pointer writer = WriterType::New();
> >>>  writer->SetInput(myMeshSpatialObject);
> >>>  writer->SetFileName("mesh.mha");
> >>>  writer->Update();
> >>>
> >>>but the program crashes and I dont get any output.
> >>>
> >>>could you give me some suggestions?
> >>
> >>
> >>I'd suggest giving the *exact* error message.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>meny thanks
> >>>michal
> >>
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >> - Dan
> >>
> >>
> >>In message <46AE5DBF.3000201 at kitware.com> Luis Ibanez <
> >>
> >>>luis.ibanez at kitware.com>
> >>>writes:
> >>>
> >>>>Hi Michal,
> >>>>
> >>>> From the list of file formats listed in:
> >>>>http://tetgen.berlios.de/fformats.html
> >>>>
> >>>>One possibility seems to be for you to use the STL file format.
> >>>>
> >>>>ITK doesn't directly write to it, but
> >>>>you can take your segmented image, save it as a
> >>>>.vtk or .mhd images, using the itkImageFileWriter.
> >>>>
> >>>>Then read the image into VTK and use the vtkContourFilter
> >>>>http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkContourFilter.html
> >>>>and save the resulting surface as an STL file
> >>>>using the STL Writer
> >>>>http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkSTLWriter.html
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>You can also do it in a single program mixing ITK and
> >>>>VTK and converting the ITK image into a vtkImageData.
> >>>>You will find examples of this conversion in the directory
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>    InsightApplications/Auxiliary/vtk
> >>>>             itkReadITKImage3DSegmentShowVTK.cxx
> >>>>             itkReadITKImageSegmentShowVTK.cxx
> >>>>             itkReadITKImageShowSplineVTK.cxx
> >>>>             itkReadITKImageShowVTK.cxx
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>   Regards,
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>      Luis
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>------------------------
> >>>>Michal Plotkowiak wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>Hi
> >>>>>
> >>>>>could someone tell me how can I convert a segmented image stored in
> >>>
> >>>.mha
> >>>file
> >>>
> >>>>>to a spatial object readable by TetGen (FE mesh generator)?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>many thanks
> >>>>>michal
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>--
> >>>Michal Plotkowiak
> >>>Doctoral Researcher
> >>>Oxford University LSI DTC
> >>>
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> >>>
> > 
> > 
> 

-- 
Michal Plotkowiak
Doctoral Researcher
Oxford University LSI DTC