[vtkusers] Re: CMake issues

[Tom Radcliffe]

Do you have the platform SDK installed?  It can be downloaded from the 
Microsoft website--it is not part of the VC++.Net Express 2005 install.

--Tom

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Tom Radcliffe, Ph.D., P.Eng.
President, Predictive Patterns Software Inc.
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tradcliffe at predictivepatterns.com


Bob Palank wrote:

> Greetings.
> Running Win XP Home with VC++.Net Express 2005.  In attempting to 
> build vtk 4.2 CMake 2.2-Patch3  reports that it cannot compile a 
> sample program and offers no output message.   I tested my own C 
> program using cl from within a batch file and the comile. link, 
> execute sequence was successful.
> What should I do?
> BR
>   Bob Palank
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* vtkusers-bounces+bob=stlcc.org at vtk.org
>     [mailto:vtkusers-bounces+bob=stlcc.org at vtk.org]*On Behalf Of
>     *Randall Hand
>     *Sent:* Thursday, January 26, 2006 1:56 PM
>     *To:* Goodwin Lawlor
>     *Cc:* vtkusers at public.kitware.com
>     *Subject:* Re: [vtkusers] Re: Metaball Simulation
>
>     Clever.. so you mean I would derive a vtkMetaballs from
>     vtkImplicitFunction that basically had 1 user function
>     "AddMetaball(float position[3], float radius)".  Then all i'll
>     need is to override the EvaluateFunction and EvaluateGradient to
>     return the correct value, right?
>
>     wow.. That's nowhere near as complicated as I was expecting to
>     have to do :)  Thanks!
>
>     On 1/26/06, *Goodwin Lawlor* < goodwin.lawlor at ucd.ie
>     <mailto:goodwin.lawlor at ucd.ie>> wrote:
>
>         Randall Hand wrote:
>         > I'm curious if there is any way in VTK to do a create a
>         MetaBall-type
>         > dataset.  Example of metaballs can be found here:
>         > http://www.corelmag.com/1103/overview/Metaball_Modeling.html
>         > < http://www.corelmag.com/1103/overview/Metaball_Modeling.html>
>         >
>         > Basically I want to be able to define points in 3d-space
>         along with a
>         > Radius for each, and then have a vtkPolyData (or something
>         like it)
>         > created from the results of the Metaball surface.  Is there
>         any way to
>         > do this in VTK?  I can get a rough approximation by using a
>         vtkGlyph3d
>         > and mapping a vtkSphereSource at each point, but that leaves
>         > intersecting geometry without the smooth features that come
>         from a
>         > Metaballs type algorithm.
>
>         Hi Randall,
>
>         This looks a job for a vtkImplicitFunction... maybe called
>         vtkMetaballs.
>         vtkMetaballs would define a centre, a radius, and a potential
>         function
>         for each metaball you add to the system. Then, just sample it with
>         vtkSampleFunction, and create the surface with a vtkContourFilter.
>
>         Have a look at this paper: http://tinyurl.com/7fdox
>         <http://tinyurl.com/7fdox>
>
>         hth
>
>         Goodwin
>
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>
>     -- 
>     Randall Hand
>     Visualization Scientist,
>     ERDC-MSRC Vicksburg, MS
>     Homepage: http://www.yeraze.com 
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