[vtkusers] Please help.
David Cole
david.cole at kitware.com
Wed Dec 31 10:02:43 EST 2008
Perhaps this:
http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ#What.27s_the_best_way_to_learn_VTK.3F
...or some of the other FAQ answers will help you decide how to get started.
HTH,
David
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Femi Ayinde <femi_folorunso at yahoo.com>wrote:
> 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
> --- On Tue, 12/30/08, vtkusers-request at vtk.org <vtkusers-request at vtk.org>
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> > Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2008, 9:00 AM
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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:
> > <f435c2c50812290910m5b59dadfnbcaae289d27a54d2 at mail.gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >
> > 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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> > Message: 4
> > Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:57:40 -0200
> > From: "Paul Jhin" <paul.jhin1 at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [vtkusers] SplitExtent - Large ImageData
> > To: vtkusers at vtk.org
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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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