[vtkusers] Please help.
Femi Ayinde
femi_folorunso at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 31 01:15:33 EST 2008
Dear Sir/Ma,
I am completely new to VTK. I have a Vista based system and dont know how to get started.
Please offer any assistance to me
Regards
Femi
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> Today's Topics:
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> 1. VTK 5.2.1 (David Cole)
> 2. Re: VTK 5.2 Tag file? (David Cole)
> 3. Minimum Spanning Trees Re: Building VTK-BGL
> algorithms (using
> cmake) (Aytekin Vargun)
> 4. SplitExtent - Large ImageData (Paul Jhin)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:10:09 -0500
> From: "David Cole" <david.cole at kitware.com>
> Subject: [vtkusers] VTK 5.2.1
> To: vtk-developers <vtk-developers at vtk.org>, vtk
> <vtkusers at vtk.org>
> Message-ID:
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> Dear VTK users and developers,
>
> The VTK 5.2.1 patch release is now available for download
> from the VTK
> web site: http://www.vtk.org/get-software.php. The
> following changes
> are included in this release.
>
> *changes from 5.2.0 to 5.2.1:*
> 1) Fix Borland compile problem in vtkConvertSelection.cxx
> 2) Fix links on main Doxygen page
> 3) Eliminate compiler warnings in generated code
> 4) Invoke EndInteractionEvent *after* the WidgetState is
> changed
> 5) Fix issue 7511: vtkSmoothPolyDataFilter crash
> 6) Fix issue 7512: make vtkPlaneWidget sphere resizing
> smoother
> 7) Fix issue 7518: vtkDataReader memory errors
> 8) Fix sharedforward with a space in the path. Thanks to
> Brad King.
> 9) Enable kwsys' SystemInfo
> 10) Add install rules for vtkExportKit.cmake and
> vtkKit.cmake.in
> 11) Add install rules for vtkEncodeString and
> vtkTestDriver.h
> 12) Fix incorrect documentation tag file name
> 13) Fix problem with passing null object to java wrapped
> methods
> 14) Get GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE from OpenGL rather than using a
> hard coded value
> 15) Propagate render window size changes to the render
> window interactor
> 16) Fix issue 7638: ensure correct resource context when
> switching OpenGL
> contexts on Windows
> 17) Add missing WM_SETCURSOR handler to
> vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow
> 18) Improvements to FindMySQL.cmake
> 19) Improve vtkAVIWriter: Allow programmatically setting
> the compressor
> 20) Improve vtkAVIWriter: Allow user to choose codec
> 21) Fix crash: do not pass invalid parameters to strftime
> 22) Add Tcl/Tk 8.6 support
> 23) Fix issue 7887: numerical error in vtkContourValues
> 24) Fix issue 7705: vtkfreetype compile problem on Mac
> 25) Fix issue with compiling vtkOpenGLExtensionManager on
> Solaris 10
> 26) Implement GetBounds in
> Widgets/vtkPolygonalHandleRepresentation3D
> 27) Remove vtklibxml2 dependency on libhistory and
> libreadline
>
> *changes from 5.0.4 to 5.2.0:*
> - Infovis kit
> - Views kit
> - New Widgets architecture and more than a dozen new
> widgets
> - New Utilities: freerange, verdict, libxml2, metaio,
> sqlite
> - Updated Utilities: freetype, zlib
> - More than 300 new C++ classes
> - More than 100 new C++ tests running on most dashboards
> - Improvements to PLY file support
> - Many bug fixes, including much improved Java wrapping
> support
> - Mac OS X-specific fixes:
> -- Defaults to building using Cocoa instead of Carbon
> -- Can now be compiled against the 10.5 SDK
> -- Can now be built as a Universal Binary
> -- Initial support for Resolution Independence in 10.5
>
> We hope you enjoy this new release of VTK.
>
> - David
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:24:14 -0500
> From: "David Cole" <david.cole at kitware.com>
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] VTK 5.2 Tag file?
> To: "Peter F Bradshaw" <pfb at exadios.com>
> Cc: VTK users <vtkusers at vtk.org>
> Message-ID:
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> With the new patch release for VTK 5.2.1, there is now a
> documentation tag
> file available at:
> http://www.vtk.org/doc/release/5.2/vtk5.2.1.tag
>
> Please try it out and let me know if you encounter any
> problems using it.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:07 AM, David Cole
> <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> > I've committed changes to CVS HEAD and the VTK-5-2
> branch to make sure the
> > documentation tag file name is correct w.r.t. the
> version number of VTK.
> > Doing that broke the *nightly* (CVS HEAD) doxygen
> propagation script on Oct.
> > 8, but tomorrow we should see the nightly
> documentation updated properly
> > again.
> >
> > Next time we do a patch release for VTK 5.2, I will
> make sure we upload a
> > tag file for it, too.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Peter F Bradshaw
> <pfb at exadios.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi David;
> >>
> >> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, David Cole wrote:
> >>
> >> > No. There is no tag file on the server.
> >> >
> >> > In investigating the documentation creation
> process.... it turns out
> >> there
> >> > is a tag file on the machine where doxygen
> was run, but there are some
> >> bits
> >> > of the doc build process that need some
> attention: it has old version
> >> > numbers in it and is named
> "vtk4.tag"... I will put it on my list to
> >> make
> >> > sure that next time we upload a patch release
> there will be a correct
> >> tag
> >> > file with the docs.
> >> >
> >> > Sorry for the inconvenience,
> >>
> >> No worries, it is not a show stopper. Thanks.
> >>
> >> > David
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Peter F
> Bradshaw <pfb at exadios.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Hi;
> >> > >
> >> > > Is there a Doxygen Tag File associated
> with the documentation at
> >> > > http://www.vtk.org/doc/release/5.2/html/
> ?
> >> > >
> >> > > Thanks.
> >> > >
> >> > > Cheers
> >> > >
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> --
> >> Peter F Bradshaw: http://www.exadios.com (public
> keys avaliable there).
> >> Personal site: http://personal.exadios.com
> >> "I love truth, and the way the government
> still uses it occasionally to
> >> keep us guessing." - Sam Kekovich.
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> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:42:26 -0500
> From: "Aytekin Vargun" <varguna at gmail.com>
> Subject: [vtkusers] Minimum Spanning Trees Re: Building
> VTK-BGL
> algorithms (using cmake)
> To: "Jeff Baumes" <jeff.baumes at kitware.com>
> Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org
> Message-ID:
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> Thanks a lot Jeff,
> It looks like I had several versions of VTK and this was
> causing problems.
>
> Now I have another problem. I am trying to use minimum
> spanning tree
> programs. I first tried to use
> vtkBoostPrimMinimumSpanningTree but I am
> getting the following error message:
>
> "The Prim minimal spanning tree filter is still under
> development... Use at
> your own risk."
>
> I checked where the error message is and then assumed that
> I was getting
> this message since the implementation is not complete yet.
> But should I
> still see some output on the screen?
>
> I then tried to use vtkKruskalMinimumSpanningTree which
> looks like in better
> shape (whose output is a vtkSelectionAlgorithm). But I am
> failed to display
> its output since its output is not a tree but a forest
> whereas Prim's
> version produces a vtkTree . Then how can I display each
> subtree? One way of
> doing this probably is to cast the result to a graph and
> then display the
> resulting graph.
>
> I will greatly appreciate if anyone shares his/her
> experiences.
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Here is a simplified piece of code I am trying to run:
>
> vtkMutableUndirectedGraph*
> g=vtkMutableUndirectedGraph::New();
>
> // This is used for finding minimum-spanning trees
> vtkIntArray* edgeWeightsArr = vtkIntArray::New();
> edgeWeightsArr->SetName("EdgeWeights");
>
> VTK_CREATE(vtkRenderer, ren);
>
> VTK_CREATE(vtkPoints, pts);
> g->AddVertex();
> pts->InsertNextPoint(0, 1, 0);
> g->AddVertex();
> pts->InsertNextPoint(0.5, 1, 0);
> g->AddVertex();
> pts->InsertNextPoint(0.25, 0.5, 0);
> g->AddVertex();
> pts->InsertNextPoint(0, 0, 0);
> g->AddVertex();
> pts->InsertNextPoint(0.5, 0, 0);
> g->AddVertex();
> pts->InsertNextPoint(1, 0, 0);
> g->AddVertex();
> pts->InsertNextPoint(0.75, 0.5, 0);
> g->SetPoints(pts);
>
> g->AddEdge(0, 1);
> edgeWeightsArr->InsertNextValue(1);
> g->AddEdge(0, 2);
> edgeWeightsArr->InsertNextValue(1);
> g->AddEdge(1, 2);
> edgeWeightsArr->InsertNextValue(1);
> g->AddEdge(2, 3);
> edgeWeightsArr->InsertNextValue(1);
> g->AddEdge(2, 4);
> edgeWeightsArr->InsertNextValue(1);
> g->AddEdge(3, 4);
> edgeWeightsArr->InsertNextValue(1);
>
> g->GetEdgeData()->AddArray(edgeWeightsArr);
>
> //VTK_CREATE(vtkBoostPrimMinimumSpanningTree,mst);
> VTK_CREATE(vtkBoostKruskalMinimumSpanningTree,mst);
> mst->SetInput(g);
> mst->SetEdgeWeightArrayName("EdgeWeights");
> mst->Update();
>
> // HOW TO DISPLAY
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Jeff Baumes
> <jeff.baumes at kitware.com>wrote:
>
> > > When I compile the sample file, I get the first
> error for the following
> > > line:
> > > VTK_CREATE(vtkBoostBiconnectedComponents,
> biconn);
> > >
> > > (On CMake, I had set VTK_USE_BOOST set to ON when
> building VTK)
> >
> > First, make sure that your app is linking against
> vtkInfovis. If it
> > is, it appears that the Boost algorithms are not being
> compiled into
> > the vtkInfovis library you are using. Ensure that the
> vtkInfovis you
> > are linking against is the one in the build where you
> turned
> > VTK_USE_BOOST on. In Visual Studio, you can check your
> VTK build by
> > looking at the source files under vtkInfovis. Make
> sure the vtkBoost*
> > files are there.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
>
>
>
> --
> My web page: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~vargua
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> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:57:40 -0200
> From: "Paul Jhin" <paul.jhin1 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [vtkusers] SplitExtent - Large ImageData
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> Hi,
>
> How do I use the method SplitExtent?
>
> I would divide into small parts to process, because I have
> a very large
> ImageData.
>
> Code:
>
> smooth = vtk.vtkImageGaussianSmooth()
> smooth.SplitExtent( ???? )
>
> and then as a separate procedure?
>
>
> Regards,
> Paul Jhin
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