[vtkusers] Align vtk cylinder source to a given vector

[Bill Lorensen]

This example may help
http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/GeometricObjects/OrientedArrow

On Dec 13, 2016 9:13 AM, "Cory Quammen" <cory.quammen at kitware.com> wrote:

> Here's a sketch of how to do this in VTK:
>
> * Find the cross product h between the normalized default cylinder
> axis c and your normalized direction vector v.
> * Now compute theta = acos(d) where d is the dot product of c and v.
> theta is the rotation angle about h you need to rotate the cylinder to
> the direction vector.
> * Use vtkTransformFilter with the transform set to a vtkTransform
> where you have called vtkTransform::RotateWXYZ (double angle, double
> x, double y, double z). theta is in radians, but angle is expected to
> be in degrees, so you'll need to convert.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Cory
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 6:33 AM, M. Jordan <mjordan at live.at> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i have a cylinder and a given direction vector. Now I want to align the
> > cylinder along that vector.
> > How can I do this?
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> >
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