[Ves] vtkAxesActor

Wed Mar 13 11:28:44 EDT 2013

They do, and it's all I needed - just red, green and blue lines.

Thanks!

Eduardo

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Aashish Chaudhary
<aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Pat Marion <pat.marion at kitware.com> wrote:
>> That's great!  I'm curious, do the generated axes have colors?
>
> It should have colors but it does not have arrow heads.
>
>>
>> Pat
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Eduardo Poyart <poyart at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> BTW, using vtkAxes, getting the geometry through vtkAxes::GetOutput
>>> and setting it in a vesKiwiPolyDataRepresentation worked fine. I have
>>> the axes nicely rendering. I added it as another child of my Transform
>>> so that it's transformed with my model.
>>>
>>> Eduardo
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Eduardo Poyart <poyart at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > I'll wait for the Kitware github project then.
>>> >
>>> > Eduardo
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Aashish Chaudhary
>>> > <aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> >> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Eduardo Poyart <poyart at gmail.com>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>> I can share something soon, not all of my source but the parts that do
>>> >>> this change. I'm interested in doing that. I think I can fork
>>> >>> Aashish's project on github and put my changes there. Is it kept up to
>>> >>> date?
>>> >>
>>> >> It is. But I am in the process of making VES as part of Kitware repo
>>> >> (https://github.com/Kitware). Should be done this week.
>>> >> Then we can use merge request to include contributions from folks
>>> >> outside kitware.
>>> >>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> However, it's not very general at this point, I have to clean it up.
>>> >>
>>> >> Sure.
>>> >>
>>> >>> What I did was: copied the vesKiwiImageWidgetRepresentation to my own
>>> >>> ImageWidgetRepresentation, and I handle single touch, two touch, etc
>>> >>> instead of sending the events up the chain. I'm currently not using
>>> >>> the CameraSpinner because it's too tied to the camera. It would be
>>> >>> interesting if it operated on a Transform instead (both the Spinner
>>> >>> and the CameraInteractor).
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I store the model's Transform in this class and I add it to the scene
>>> >>> graph above the actor. For the slice picking, I just transform the ray
>>> >>> by the inverse model transform before doing the intersection tests.
>>> >>
>>> >> Nice.
>>> >>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I don't remember exactly why I had to copy
>>> >>> vesKiwiImageWidgetRepresentation instead of subclassing it. In general
>>> >>> I found it hard to subclass Kiwi classes, mostly due to needed things
>>> >>> being inside Internal, without accessors.
>>> >>
>>> >> We have a branch that we will merge hopefully soon that will fix this.
>>> >>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Eduardo
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Pat Marion <pat.marion at kitware.com>
>>> >>> wrote:
>>> >>>> Yeah, I guess I should add that the concept exists in the
>>> >>>> vesKiwiPlaneWidget, which is used as the clipping plane in the brain
>>> >>>> atlas
>>> >>>> demo, but it's hasn't been generalized so that you can enable
>>> >>>> interaction
>>> >>>> for any model.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Pat
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Aashish Chaudhary
>>> >>>> <aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Pat Marion
>>> >>>>> <pat.marion at kitware.com>
>>> >>>>> wrote:
>>> >>>>> > Very cool, so I guess you re-routed the touch gestures from the
>>> >>>>> > camera
>>> >>>>> > to
>>> >>>>> > individual models?  Did you use the vesKiwiWidgetRepresentation
>>> >>>>> > interface?
>>> >>>>> > How about the picking code, did you use the cell picker or
>>> >>>>> > something
>>> >>>>> > else?
>>> >>>>> > Not sure if you are able to share your source, but I'm sure there
>>> >>>>> > would
>>> >>>>> > be
>>> >>>>> > interest in the community to see example code for rotating
>>> >>>>> > individual
>>> >>>>> > models, because that's not something we've shown in KiwiViewer
>>> >>>>> > before.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> +1 would be nice to have this feature shown / exists.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> >
>>> >>>>> > Pat
>>> >>>>> >
>>> >>>>> >
>>> >>>>> > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Eduardo Poyart
>>> >>>>> > <poyart at gmail.com>
>>> >>>>> > wrote:
>>> >>>>> >>
>>> >>>>> >> Thanks! I'll try with the vtkAxisSource. I changed my system to
>>> >>>>> >> keep
>>> >>>>> >> the camera fixed and rotate the models (since I need multiple
>>> >>>>> >> models
>>> >>>>> >> rotating independently). So the model transforms are under my
>>> >>>>> >> control.
>>> >>>>> >>
>>> >>>>> >> Eduardo
>>> >>>>> >>
>>> >>>>> >>
>>> >>>>> >> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Pat Marion
>>> >>>>> >> <pat.marion at kitware.com>
>>> >>>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>>>> >> > Hi,
>>> >>>>> >> >
>>> >>>>> >> > That's correct, the vtkAxisActor is not supported.  Only the
>>> >>>>> >> > vtkRenderingCore module is built, the rest of VTK's OpenGL
>>> >>>>> >> > rendering
>>> >>>>> >> > does
>>> >>>>> >> > not support OpenGL ES 2.0.
>>> >>>>> >> >
>>> >>>>> >> > You can use the vtkAxisSource to generate geometry for a set of
>>> >>>>> >> > axes,
>>> >>>>> >> > and
>>> >>>>> >> > you can render them using VES actors. VES has support for actor
>>> >>>>> >> > overlays, if
>>> >>>>> >> > you are trying to acheive a corner annotation.  But, there is
>>> >>>>> >> > not
>>> >>>>> >> > currently
>>> >>>>> >> > an example demonstrating how to link a VES actor transform to
>>> >>>>> >> > the
>>> >>>>> >> > camera
>>> >>>>> >> > orientation.
>>> >>>>> >> >
>>> >>>>> >> > Pat
>>> >>>>> >> >
>>> >>>>> >> > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Eduardo Poyart
>>> >>>>> >> > <poyart at gmail.com>
>>> >>>>> >> > wrote:
>>> >>>>> >> >>
>>> >>>>> >> >> Hi,
>>> >>>>> >> >>
>>> >>>>> >> >> I'm trying to use vtkAxesActor, but vtkAxesActor.h includes
>>> >>>>> >> >> vtkRenderingAnnotationModule.h which doesn't exist in the vtk
>>> >>>>> >> >> implementation in ves. Are RenderingAnnotations (therefore
>>> >>>>> >> >> AxesActors)
>>> >>>>> >> >> not supported?
>>> >>>>> >> >>
>>> >>>>> >> >> Thanks
>>> >>>>> >> >> Eduardo
>>> >>>>> >> >> _______________________________________________
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>>> >>>>> >> >
>>> >>>>> >> >
>>> >>>>> >
>>> >>>>> >
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>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> --
>>> >>>>> | Aashish Chaudhary
>>> >>>>> | R&D Engineer
>>> >>>>> | Kitware Inc.
>>> >>>>> | www.kitware.com
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> | Aashish Chaudhary
>>> >> | R&D Engineer
>>> >> | Kitware Inc.
>>> >> | www.kitware.com
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> --
> | Aashish Chaudhary
> | R&D Engineer
> | Kitware Inc.
> | www.kitware.com