[vtkusers] vtkImageReslice zoomed performance - no clipping?

[David Gobbi]

Saying that it's displayed in a QVTKWidget does not tell me much... I
don't know if you are using an ImageViewer, and ImageViewer2, and
ImageActor, or a Texture to display the image.

For myself, I always use ImageActor to display images, and always
catch events so that I can set the reslice parameters and the camera
parameters for the window size.

  David


On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Henning Meyer <tutmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> David,
>
> thank you very much!
> That helped a lot. So I have to catch all resize-Events for my
> QVTKWidget and adjust OutputExtent and OutputOrigin properly, right?
> Odd thing is - still my reslice seems to be scaled up in QVTKWidget,
> even after setting   m_reslice->SetOutputSpacing(1,1,1);
>
> What could be the reason?
>
> Henning
>
> 2010/6/25 David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>:
>> Hi Henning,
>>
>> The behaviour of vtkImageReslice can be counterintuitive, but be
>> assured that its behaviour is correct.
>>
>> Probably the best way to think about it, is that vtkImageReslice
>> presents a "viewport" into the image that you are reslicing.  This
>> "viewport" is a rectangle with its lower-left corner set by
>> reslice->SetOutputOrigin(), and its size set by
>> reslice->SetOutputExtent().  The "pixel size" of the viewport is set
>> by reslice->SetOutputSpacing().
>>
>> After this basic "viewport" has been set up with
>> SetOutputOrigin()/Extent()/Spacing(), the ResliceAxes() are used to
>> set its position and orientation with respect to the volume, i.e.
>> ResliceAxes() applies a transform to the "viewport".  The transformed
>> viewport is the slice that you will end up slicing from the volume.
>>
>> It is most useful to define the "viewport" so that (0,0,0) is at the
>> center of the viewport, e.g. if you want to produce a 256x256 slice
>> with pixel spacing of (1mm, 1mm) you would do this:
>>
>> reslice->SetOutputExtent(0,255,0,255,0,0);
>> reslice->SetOutputSpacing(1,1,1);
>> reslice->SetOutputOrigin(-127.5,-127.5,0.0);
>>
>> Then you would set the ResliceAxes to transform this "viewport" to
>> somewhere inside the volume.
>>
>> Basically, you should always set the OutputExtent(), OutputSpacing(),
>> and OutputOrigin() whenever you want to do anything sophisticated with
>> vtkImageReslice.
>>
>> The default Extent/Origin/Spacing values are set that way as a flag
>> for vtkImageReslice to create its own viewport according to some
>> simplistic rules that usually don't give people what they want.  That
>> is why you should always set these values.
>>
>>   David
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Henning Meyer <tutmann at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> thank you for your explanation.
>>> I still can't help but get the impression something is odd there.
>>> When I call
>>> m_reslice->SetOutputExtent(0,100,0,100,0,0);
>>> I get a nice square clipped area, which seems to be scaled up in my QVTKWidget.
>>>
>>> And when I start to use
>>> m_reslice->SetResliceAxes(myTransform);
>>> this clipped area will move inside (even outside) my QVTKWidget.
>>>
>>> So - what is going on here? Can I help to solve this issue?
>>>
>>> Henning
>>>
>>> Btw: When I never call SetOutputExtent, I get an OutputExtent of:
>>> -2147483648 ,2147483647 ,-2147483648 ,2147483647 ,-2147483648 ,2147483647
>>>
>>>
>>> 2010/6/24 David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>:
>>>> Hi Henning,
>>>>
>>>> The vtkImageReslice filter will clip the image if you call
>>>> SetOutputExtent(), or if you don't set the OutputExtent, then clipping
>>>> is done according the UpdateExtent set by the pipeline.  So those are
>>>> the only ways to change the clipping: either set it manually with
>>>> SetOutputExtent, or fiddle with the downstream filters to change the
>>>> UpdateExtent.
>>>>
>>>> I've wanted to write an easier-to-use alternative to vtkImageReslice
>>>> for a very long time (there really isn't any way to make
>>>> vtkImageReslice "smarter" without breaking backwards compatibility in
>>>> one way or another).
>>>>
>>>>   David
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Henning Meyer <tutmann at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>> When using vtkImageReslice, I get very low performance, once I zoom
>>>>> into an image. It seems, that vtkImageReslice is rendering a huge
>>>>> virtual image, and is clipping after that, is that true? Could it be
>>>>> changed to be clipped before? Also I found, the clipping is not always
>>>>> correct, as sometimes with certain transforms the output image gets
>>>>> clipped inside the render window.
>>>>> Is there anything I could do here?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>
>>>>> Henning
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