[vtkusers] How do I install VTK

Thu Sep 27 15:29:10 EDT 2007

See the file README.html in the root directory for compilation instructions.

What operating system are you using?  What exactly did you try with
CMake? What error messages did you get?

Catherine Peloquin

>
> On 9/27/07, ezim mansur <ezimmansur at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I am quite new to VTK.
> > I tried installing the VTK and tried CMake somehow. But I could not make it
> > run.
> > Could anyone explain how to install the VTK invironment and the CMAKE, And
> > how I use the environment....
> > Thanks.
> >
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> > 1. Stream Lines (Renato Cesar Pompeu)
> > 2. [vtkusers]color window+color level (m26404030 at john.petra.ac.id)
> > 3. Segmentation fault with sample applications (ATI graphics
> > problem?) (Charlotte Curtis)
> > 4. Re: Segmentation fault with sample applications (ATI graphics
> > problem?) (Mathieu Malaterre)
> > 5. make a surface plot transparent (yadin Bocuma Rivas)
> > 6. make a surface plot transparent (yadin Bocuma Rivas)
> > 7. Threshold based segmentation (samo)
> > 8. Can VTK be built with Mesa under Windows? (Maurice Samulski)
> > 9. vtkRenderWindowInteractor not responding to keybord input
> > (Christophe Peyret)
> > 10. Re: vtkRenderWindowInteractor not responding to keybord input
> > (Mathieu Malaterre)
> >
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:55:51 +0000
> > From: Renato Cesar Pompeu
> > Subject: [vtkusers] Stream Lines
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> > In each point I have three vectors vx [i] [j] [k], vy [i] [j] [k] and vz [i]
> > [j] [k]. I would like to trace the corresponding lines of flow to these
> > vectors. How is possible to make it? Somebody has some example in C++?
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
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> > Message: 2
> > Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:48:11 +0700
> > From: m26404030 at john.petra.ac.id
> > Subject: [vtkusers]color window+color level
> > To: vtkusers at vtk.org
> > Message-ID: <1190828891.46fa9b5becb4a at mail.petra.ac.id>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
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> >
> >
> > hi all, i want to display 2D image(BMP image).
> > This is my code
> >
> > void main()
> > {
> > vtkBMPReader *reader=vtkBMPReader::New();
> > reader->SetFileName("image.bmp");
> > reader->Update();
> >
> > vtkImageViewer *viewer=vtkImageViewer::New();
> > viewer->SetInput(reader->GetOutput());
> > //viewer->SetColorWindow();
> > //viewer->SetColorLevel();
> > viewer->Render();
> > }
> >
> > i can display the image but the result is not good.(the image looks darker)
> > i believe the problem is in the SetColorWindow and SetColorLevel function.
> > how can i specify the parameter of those two functions so i can display the
> > image exactly the same as the original image??(i have tried some values but
> > the
> > display still not good enough)
> >
> >
> >
> > thanx a lot..
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:06:02 -0400
> > From: "Charlotte Curtis"
> > Subject: [vtkusers] Segmentation fault with sample applications (ATI
> > graphics problem?)
> > To: vtkusers at vtk.org
> > Message-ID:
> > <117c5ac20709261406y32a664bdm1d866dce8445206c at mail.gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >
> > I'm a new user of ITK/VTK, and I just finished compiling and building the
> > sample applications for ITK. However, when I run them (for example,
> > ThresholdSegmentationLevelSet), I always get a segmentation fault.
> > Sometimes it happens when I click on Image Display, and sometimes I can
> > display the image no problem - the only consistency is that it always
> > crashes when I click VTK Render. I tried running it in GDB and this is my
> > stack trace (minus a bunch of garbage lines):
> >
> > #0 0xb7a01f2f in memcpy () from /lib/libc.so.6
> > #1 0xb64b080f in std::string::_S_copy_chars () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
> > #2 0xb64b466d in
> > std::string::_M_replace_safe<__gnu_cxx::__normal_iteratorstd::string>
> > () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
> > #3 0xb64b4595 in std::string::_M_replace () from
> > /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
> > #4 0xb64b29fb in std::string::replace () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
> > #5 0xb6c0eb60 in Initialize () from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
> > #6 0xb6beccb8 in ShSetResourceLimits () from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
> > #7 0xb6756a09 in __glslATIInitFrontEndParser () from
> > /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
> > #8 0xb6957da3 in __glEarlyInitContext () from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
> > #9 0xb67b3942 in __glATICreateContext () from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
> > #10 0xb6a3cfb9 in fglX11CreateHWContext () from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
> > #11 0xb6a540a8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
> > #15 0xb6a53345 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
> > #23 0xb6a535b6 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
> >
> > >From the looks of things, it's something to do with the direct rending of
> > my
> > graphics card driver (ATI X1600).
> >
> > This happens with my dataset as well as with VTKData samples (such as
> > VTKData/data/HeadMRVolume.mhd). Any clue what I can do? It's a little
> > discouraging that not even the sample applications work. Thanks,
> >
> > Charlotte
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> >
> > Message: 4
> > Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:56:10 +0200
> > From: "Mathieu Malaterre"
> > Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Segmentation fault with sample applications
> > (ATI graphics problem?)
> > To: "Charlotte Curtis"
> > Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org
> > Message-ID:
> >
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> >
> > Hi Charlotte,
> >
> > You can easily switch to software mode rendering:
> >
> > http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_OpenGL#Debugging_the_ATI_libGL
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > $ export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
> > $ ./my_vtk_example
> >
> > If your program is running fine this way. I would suggest you try to
> > use a more recent fglrx driver. If this still does not work, get
> > someone to reimplement this buggy driver from the specs:
> > http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~119372,00.html
> >
> > ;)
> >
> > -Mathieu
> >
> > On 9/26/07, Charlotte Curtis wrote:
> > > I'm a new user of ITK/VTK, and I just finished compiling and building the
> > > sample applications for ITK. However, when I run them (for example,
> > > ThresholdSegmentationLevelSet), I always get a segmentation fault.
> > > Sometimes it happens when I click on Image Display, and sometimes I can
> > > display the image no problem - the only consistency is that it always
> > > crashes when I click VTK Render. I tried running it in GDB and this is my
> > > stack trace (minus a bunch of garbage lines):
> > >
> > > #0 0xb7a01f2f in memcpy () from /lib/libc.so.6
> > > #1 0xb64b080f in std::string::_S_copy_chars () from
> > /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
> > > #2 0xb64b466d in
> > >
> > std::string::_M_replace_safe<__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator>
> > std::string> () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
> > > #3 0xb64b4595 in std::string::_M_replace () from
> > > /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
> > > #4 0xb64b29fb in std::string::replace () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
> > > #5 0xb6c0eb60 in Initialize () from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
> > > #6 0xb6beccb8 in ShSetResourceLimits () from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
> > > #7 0xb6756a09 in __glslATIInitFrontEndParser () from
> > > /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
> > > #8 0xb6957da3 in __glEarlyInitContext () from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
> > > #9 0xb67b3942 in __glATICreateContext () from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
> > > #10 0xb6a3cfb9 in fglX11CreateHWContext () from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
> > > #11 0xb6a540a8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
> > > #15 0xb6a53345 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
> > > #23 0xb6a535b6 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
> > >
> > > From the looks of things, it's something to do with the direct rending of
> > my
> > > graphics card driver (ATI X1600).
> > >
> > > This happens with my dataset as well as with VTKData samples (such as
> > > VTKData/data/HeadMRVolume.mhd). Any clue what I can do?
> > > It's a little discouraging that not even the sample applications work.
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Charlotte
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > This is the private VTK discussion list.
> > > Please keep messages on-topic. Check the FAQ at:
> > > http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ
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> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mathieu
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 5
> > Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:40:18 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: yadin Bocuma Rivas
> > Subject: [vtkusers] make a surface plot transparent
> > To: vtkusers at vtk.org
> > Message-ID: <332961.63485.qm at web51310.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >
> > Hi!
> > I have these program almost working
> > it plot a surface from given poins using
> > now all that i would like to do is to make the surface looking like
> > transparent (opaque)
> > how can i do this? any ideas? it all looks red (i do not want any color just
> > transparent )
> > i atached the python file
> > please help me
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > Message: 6
> > Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:54:02 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: yadin Bocuma Rivas
> > Subject: [vtkusers] make a surface plot transparent
> > To: vtkusers at vtk.org
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> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 7
> > Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:07:23 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: samo
> > Subject: [vtkusers] Threshold based segmentation
> > To: vtkusers at vtk.org
> > Message-ID: <12918966.post at talk.nabble.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello together
> >
> > What I would like to do is reconstruct a 3D surface out of CT data. The user
> > of the program could, for example, chose a pixel out of the ct data and that
> > grey value of the pixel would be the contour value for the marching cubes
> > algorithm. Additionaly, a region growing would be very nice. Does anybody
> > know whether something like this is implemented in vtk? Or do I have to
> > implement it on my own?
> >
> > Thank you very much
> >
> > --
> > View this message in context:
> > http://www.nabble.com/Threshold-based-segmentation-tf4527683.html#a12918966
> > Sent from the VTK - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 8
> > Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:52:47 +0200
> > From: "Maurice Samulski"
> > Subject: [vtkusers] Can VTK be built with Mesa under Windows?
> > To: vtkusers at vtk.org
> > Message-ID:
> >
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >
> > I've sucessfully compiled VTK and Qt under Windows, and all the tests pass.
> > However, I want
> > to use Mesa GL libraries (which are also available for Windows) with VTK. Is
> > that in anyway possible?
> >
> > When recompiling VTK with Mesa support, I get the following errors:
> >
> > In file included from
> > C:/Dev/vtk-5.0.3/Rendering/vtkGraphicsFactory.cxx:71:
> > C:/Dev/vtk-5.0.3/Rendering/vtkXMesaRenderWindow.h:26:73:
> > X11/Xlib.h: No such
> > file or directory
> > C:/Dev/vtk-5.0.3/Rendering/vtkXMesaRenderWindow.h:27:74:
> > X11/Xutil.h: No
> > such file or directory
> > In file included from
> > C:/Dev/vtk-5.0.3/Rendering/vtkGraphicsFactory.cxx:71:
> > C:/Dev/vtk-5.0.3/Rendering/vtkXMesaRenderWindow.h:78:
> > error: `Colormap' does
> > not name a type
> > C:/Dev/vtk-5.0.3/Rendering/vtkXMesaRenderWindow.h:79:
> > error: ISO C++ forbids
> > declaration of `Visual' with no type
> >
> > Obviously, I do not have X on Windows, is there a some sort of
> > vtkWin32MesaRenderWindow available?
> >
> > Thanks for your time.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Maurice
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> > Message: 9
> > Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:12:45 +0200
> > From: Christophe Peyret
> > Subject: [vtkusers] vtkRenderWindowInteractor not responding to
> > keybord input
> > To: vtkusers at vtk.org
> > Message-ID:
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am using vtk-5.0.3 under OSX 10.4.10. I have compiled the example
> > cone5.cxx that you can find here:
> >
> > http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/Examples/
> > Tutorial/Step5/Cxx/Cone5.cxx?root=VTK&content-type=text/plain
> >
> > when I run the program it works and I can play with the mouse in
> > order to rotate or zoom the render. However, the
> > vtkRenderWindowInteractor is not responding to keyboard. The
> > character I press just print in the terminal window but has no effect
> > on the render itself. In order to quit I need to enter Crtl + C :(
> >
> > Christophe
> >
> > Here is my compilation makefile
> >
> >
> > TARGET = cone5
> >
> > LD = icpc
> > CC = icc
> > CXX = icpc
> >
> > SRCDIR = ./src
> > OBJDIR = ./obj
> > DIREXE = ./
> > INCL = -I$(VTK_HOME)/include/vtk-5.0
> >
> > CCFLAGS = -c -O3 -ip -unroll0 $(INCL)
> >
> > LDFLAGS = -framework Cocoa -framework OpenGL \
> > -L$(VTK_HOME)/lib\
> > -lvtkCommon\
> > -lvtkDICOMParser\
> > -lvtkFiltering\
> > -lvtkGenericFiltering\
> > -lvtkGraphics\
> > -lvtkHybrid \
> > -lvtkIO\
> > -lvtkImaging\
> > -lvtkNetCDF\
> > -lvtkRendering\
> > -lvtkVolumeRendering\
> > -lvtkWidgets\
> > -lvtkexoIIc\
> > -lvtkexpat\
> > -lvtkfreetype\
> > -lvtkftgl\
> > -lvtkjpeg\
> > -lvtkpng\
> > -lvtksys\
> > -lvtktiff\
> > -lvtkzlib
> >
> > # Building application
> >
> > OBJS = $(OBJDIR)/cone5.o
> >
> > $(TARGET) : $(OBJS)
> > $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) $(OBJS) -o $(DIREXE)$(TARGET)
> > @echo ----------- ${TARGET} created -----------
> >
> > # Compilation
> >
> > $(OBJDIR)/%.o : $(SRCDIR)/%.cxx
> > $(CXX) $(CCFLAGS) -o $@ $<
> >
> > $(OBJDIR)/%.o : $(SRCDIR)/%.c
> > $(CC) $(CCFLAGS) -o $@ $<
> >
> >
> > clean :
> > \rm $(OBJS) $(DIREXE)$(TARGET)
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 10
> > Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:42:02 +0200
> > From: "Mathieu Malaterre"
> > Subject: Re: [vtkusers] vtkRenderWindowInteractor not responding to
> > keybord input
> > To: "Christophe Peyret"
> > Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org
> > Message-ID:
> >
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> >
> > Salut Christophe,
> >
> > This is a known issue in VTK on MacOSX. You need to :
> >
> > replace
> >
> > ADD_EXECUTABLE(Cone5 Cone5.cxx)
> >
> > with
> >
> > ADD_EXECUTABLE(Cone5 MACOSX_BUNDLE Cone5.cxx)
> >
> > in VTK/Examples/Tutorial/Step5/Cxx/CMakeLists.txt
> >
> > HTH
> > -Mathieu
> >
> > On 9/27/07, Christophe Peyret wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am using vtk-5.0.3 under OSX 10.4.10. I have compiled the example
> > > cone5.cxx that you can find here:
> > >
> > >
> > http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/Examples/
> > >
> > Tutorial/Step5/Cxx/Cone5.cxx?root=VTK&content-type=text/plain
> > >
> > > when I run the program it works and I can play with the mouse in
> > > order to rotate or zoom the render. However, the
> > > vtkRenderWindowInteractor is not responding to keyboard. The
> > > character I press just print in the terminal window but has no effect
> > > on the render itself. In order to quit I need to enter Crtl + C :(
> > >
> > > Christophe
> > >
> > > Here is my compilation makefile
> > >
> > >
> > > TARGET = cone5
> > >
> > > LD = icpc
> > > CC = icc
> > > CXX = icpc
> > >
> > > SRCDIR = ./src
> > > OBJDIR = ./obj
> > > DIREXE = ./
> > > INCL = -I$(VTK_HOME)/include/vtk-5.0
> > >
> > > CCFLAGS = -c -O3 -ip -unroll0 $(INCL)
> > >
> > > LDFLAGS = -framework Cocoa -framework OpenGL \
> > > -L$(VTK_HOME)/lib\
> > > -lvtkCommon\
> > > -lvtkDICOMParser\
> > > -lvtkFiltering\
> > > -lvtkGenericFiltering\
> > > -lvtkGraphics\
> > > -lvtkHybrid \
> > > -lvtkIO\
> > > -lvtkImaging\
> > > -lvtkNetCDF\
> > > -lvtkRendering\
> > > -lvtkVolumeRendering\
> > > -lvtkWidgets\
> > > -lvtkexoIIc\
> > > -lvtkexpat\
> > > -lvtkfreetype\
> > > -lvtkftgl\
> > > -lvtkjpeg\
> > > -lvtkpng\
> > > -lvtksys\
> > > -lvtktiff\
> > > -lvtkzlib
> > >
> > > # Building application
> > >
> > > OBJS = $(OBJDIR)/cone5.o
> > >
> > > $(TARGET) : $(OBJS)
> > > $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) $(OBJS) -o $(DIREXE)$(TARGET)
> > > @echo ----------- ${TARGET} created -----------
> > >
> > > # Compilation
> > >
> > > $(OBJDIR)/%.o : $(SRCDIR)/%.cxx
> > > $(CXX) $(CCFLAGS) -o $@ $<
> > >
> > > $(OBJDIR)/%.o : $(SRCDIR)/%.c
> > > $(CC) $(CCFLAGS) -o $@ $<
> > >
> > >
> > > clean :
> > > \rm $(OBJS) $(DIREXE)$(TARGET)
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
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> >
> >
> > --
> > Mathieu
> >
> >
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