[vtkusers] Interactive cut plane

Eigil Samset samset at bwh.harvard.edu
Tue Feb 14 15:54:09 EST 2006


VtkImplicitPlaneWidget uses SetNormal and SetOrigin on the vtkPlane. I'd
like to have the changed position and orientation of the plane be a part of
the pipeline, so that there would be no need for setting plane parameters
with a vtkTransform changes.

Eigil


On 2/14/06 3:33 PM, "Mathieu Malaterre" <mathieu.malaterre at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Eigil Samset wrote:
>> I'm implementing an interactive cutplane using a vtkClipPolyData with a
>> vtkPlane as the implicit function. In order to move the plane around I use
>> the SetTransform method on the vtkPlane. This gives far from interactive
>> speed. Whenever I set a new transform it takes in the order of 1s to update
>> the display (changing the camera pos/orientation is instant). Any other
>> suggestions?
> 
> Myabe you can have a look at how this is done in :
> 
> vtkImagePlaneWidget
> or
> vtkImplicitPlaneWidget
> 
> HTH
> Mathieu





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