[vtkusers] texture mapping

Bill Lorensen bill.lorensen at gmail.com
Wed Nov 20 08:34:36 EST 2013


What image do you want to map to the brain?


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Susanne Schmalkalt
<Susanne.Schmalkalt at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am working on a project and would like to map an image to the surface of a
> brain. The brain is saved as a vtkMRMLLabelMetaListNode, which is a
> vtkMRMLNode, a labelmap in Slicer4. I assume, I can extract the surface of
> the labelmap with vtkGeometryFilter. Now, to apply the texture to the
> surface I was hoping to find something like vtkTextureMaptoSurface, but all
> I found was vtkTextureMaptoPlane, -Sphere, etc.
> Does someone know a nice example that does something similar? I found many
> users asking similar questions also in vtkusers mailing list but the answers
> weren't visible or simply not there.
>
> The second question (and perhaps also important information for the first
> one): To get the image I am using vtkpolydata to form a grid, assign my
> measurement values to the mesh and visualize it using a colormap. I couldn't
> find any way to turn this resulting image into a vtkImage, but I assume that
> I would need this inorder to use the texturemapping, right?
>
> Thank you a lot for any help or hints!
> Susi
>
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