[vtkusers] Easy Rendering

[Cory Quammen]

Check out vtkRenderView and vtkRenderedSurfaceRepresentation. Using
these classes will lead to something not quite as short as your
example, but they at least relieves you of having to set up a mapper
and actor.

Cory

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:39 AM, David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com> wrote:
> For times when all the user wants to do is display an object, there
> should be an interface like this:
> http://www.rpi.edu/~doriad/VTK_List/EasyRendering/
>
>  EasyRenderer MyEasyRenderer;
>  MyEasyRenderer.AddObject(Sphere1);
>  MyEasyRenderer.AddObject(Sphere2);
>  MyEasyRenderer.Render();
>
> You can see that I've replaced 50 lines of things that most users
> don't care about/are very confusing with something highly intuitive.
>
> What do you think about something like this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
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Cory Quammen
Center for Computer Integrated Systems for Microscopy and Manipulation (CISMM)
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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