[vtkusers] vtkCamera as X-Ray camera

[Taylor Braun-Jones]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:34 AM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:

> > On a related topic, I wonder if some of the VTK class documentation would
> > benefit from diagrams to help explain the geometry concepts? If so, I'd
> be
> > happy to put something together for vtkCamera. What would be the
> preferred
> > format? .dia from which the Doxygen build system generates .png images?
>
> That would be excellent! We started doing this with ITK class
> documentation a while back (e.g.
>
> http://www.itk.org/Doxygen/html/structitk_1_1NeighborhoodAlgorithm_1_1ImageBoundaryFacesCalculator.html
> )
> and I completely agree that diagrams are extremely beneficial.
> However, I believe it took some effort to setup the system that keeps
> the diagrams reversion controlled and inserts them into the Doxygen
> automatically. The good news is that it can be done and by looking at
> how it is done in ITK it should be straightforward to copy if anyone
> has the time to do it.
>

Looks like there are a couple other VTK classes that already have figures
in their documentation. When I get a chance, I'll match those classes by
using IPE to create ./Rendering/Core/vtkCameraFigure.ipe and export .eps
and .png versions for the Doxygen documentation.

Taylor
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