[vtkusers] Re: Fw: Glyph3D questions

Tue Aug 30 16:10:01 EDT 2005

Hi John,

As I am working on a protoype right now with a very tight time and
money budget, I can not change the vtk version right now. I will
find a way to display the glyphs with one actor per color and type.
This will work in a short time and will show the customer what he
wants to see.
But I will have to upgrade for the real application. I then might contact
you again for additional information.

Thanks again,
Roger

"John Biddiscombe" <biddisco at cscs.ch> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:43146065.9020307 at cscs.ch...
> Roger,
>
> I think you may not be able to do what you want with earlier versions of 
> glyph3D. I can't remember when (a couple of months back?), but I added 
> some code to make different scalars used for different colouring/scaling. 
> Indexing should be ok (look harder it is possible I'm sure). I've not 
> looed at the code for old versions today so I realy can't remember. If you 
> can update to a new vtk version (cvs) then give it a try. If you have a 
> lot of homemade filters, probably you've got some work to do, but if not, 
> then the pain shouldn't be too much.
>
> JB
>
>
> Roger Blum wrote:
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Blum" <rogerblum at hawaii.rr.com>
>> To: "John Biddiscombe" <biddisco at cscs.ch>
>> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 3:50 PM
>> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Glyph3D questions
>>
>>
>>> Hello John,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your answer.
>>> I have been trying to make it work, but had no succes till now.
>>> I haven't mentioned in my posting that I use vtk 4.4.2 and script it 
>>> with Tcl.
>>>
>>> After searching all of the examples I still cannot figure out, how to 
>>> supply
>>> the extra information (a color index, a type index and a direction) to 
>>> the
>>> vtkGlyph3D object.
>>> The method you supposed "SetInputArrayToProcess" doesn't seem to
>>> exist (in this version of vtk?).
>>> So how does vtkGlyph3D know which type of glyph and color to assign
>>> to a node? How do I have to construct the input for vtkGlyph3D?
>>>
>>> I've also checked the source code vtkGlyph3D.cxx and it seems to only
>>> use one scalar value for the scaling, indexing and color selection. Is 
>>> this
>>> correct? If yes, I wouldn't be able to do what I want then. I would have
>>> to create one Glyph3D per type or per color.
>>>
>>> Thanks again for your help,
>>> Roger
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Biddiscombe" <biddisco at cscs.ch>
>>> To: "Roger Blum" <roger_blum at swissonline.ch>
>>> Cc: <vtkusers at public.kitware.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 9:23 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Glyph3D questions
>>>
>>>
>>>> Using vtk from recent CVS (glyph3D has changed a lot since vtk4.4), to 
>>>> display a different object for each type, with a differnet colour, I 
>>>> use this snippet. In this case data scaling is off, but if you wanted 
>>>> to do scaling too then you can add another SetInputArrayToProcess call. 
>>>> Likewise for orientation. If you can't get orientation working, then 
>>>> ask me again and I'll have another look inside the glyph3D code, I cant 
>>>> remember if orientation can be specified separately from other scalars 
>>>> etc.
>>>>
>>>>    NodeGlyphs->SetInput(NodeData);
>>>>    NodeGlyphs->SetColorModeToColorByScalar();
>>>>    NodeGlyphs->SetScaleModeToDataScalingOff();
>>>>    NodeGlyphs->SetScaleFactor(0.25);
>>>>    NodeGlyphs->SetScaling(1);
>>>>    NodeGlyphs->SetIndexModeToScalar();
>>>>
>>>> NodeGlyphs->SetInputArrayToProcess(0,0,0,vtkDataObject::FIELD_ASSOCIATION_POINTS, 
>>>> "nodeTypes");
>>>>
>>>> NodeGlyphs->SetInputArrayToProcess(3,0,0,vtkDataObject::FIELD_ASSOCIATION_POINTS, 
>>>> "nodeColours");
>>>>
>>>>    for (int i=0; i<this->NumGlyphObjects; ++i) {
>>>>      NodeGlyphs->SetSource(i, this->GlyphObjects[i]);
>>>>    }
>>>>    NodeGlyphs->SetRange(0,NODET_MAX);
>>>>    NodeGlyphs->Update();
>>>>
>>>> In the above code, we assume that there is an array called "nodeTypes" 
>>>> and another "nodeColours" which is present on the pointdata of the 
>>>> NodeData object.
>>>>
>>>> JB
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Roger Blum wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have checked the manual, examples and news list but couldn't find 
>>>>> the
>>>>> solution to my problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to use a vthGlyph3D filter to display my data.
>>>>> For each glyph I have
>>>>> - a point (X,Y,Z)
>>>>> - a direction (X,Y,Z)
>>>>> - a color code (1,...,n)
>>>>> - a type code (1,...,n)
>>>>>
>>>>> With this information I would like to show the glyphs (type depending 
>>>>> on type code)
>>>>> with a specific color (depending on color code) at a position (point) 
>>>>> with a direction
>>>>> at a fixed size (not influenced by zooming).
>>>>>
>>>>> How do I have to set up and connect the needed objects so my 
>>>>> vtkGlyph3D object
>>>>> generates the desired output?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your help,
>>>>> Roger
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> John Biddiscombe,                            email:biddisco @ cscs.ch
>>>> http://www.cscs.ch/about/BJohn.php
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> http://www.cscs.ch/about/BJohn.php
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