[vtkusers] Flat interpolation under OpenGL2 backend

Mon Feb 22 08:28:44 EST 2016

Hello,

Not sure, but maybe a call to
SetScalarModeToUseCellData()
is needed on the mapper ?
You should try to save/load the dataset in paraview after it is processed
to see what's going on with the cell/point data :)

Good luck
Simon

2016-02-22 13:23 GMT+01:00 Fernando Nellmeldin <
f.nellmeldin at open-engineering.com>:

> Hello again.
> Yes, you understood the issue perfectly. And I understand the reason as of
> why is not working anymore, thank you for the great explanation.
>
> After your advise, I tried using vtkPointDataToCellData, but without
> success.
> Here is one small example I wrote. If I activate the line #define USE_P2C,
> I can't see any color (everything is light gray). If that line is
> commented, everything works as expected.
> Do you know what I am missing?
>
>
> #include <vtkSmartPointer.h>
> #include <vtkDataSetMapper.h>
> #include <vtkActor.h>
> #include <vtkPointDataToCellData.h>
> #include <vtkUnstructuredGrid.h>
> #include <vtkUnstructuredGridGeometryFilter.h>
> #include <vtkGeometryFilter.h>
> #include <vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader.h>
> #include <vtkRenderer.h>
> #include <vtkRenderWindow.h>
> #include <vtkPointData.h>
> #include <vtkCellData.h>
> #include <vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h>
> int main()
> {
> // Read the grid
> std::string filename = "D:/model.vtu";
> std::string fieldname = "TEMP";
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader> reader =
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkXMLUnstructuredGridReader>::New();
> reader->SetFileName(filename.c_str());
> reader->Update();
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkUnstructuredGrid> model = reader->GetOutput();
>
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkDataSetMapper> colorMapper =
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkDataSetMapper>::New();
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor> colorActor = vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor>::New();
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkGeometryFilter> geometryFilter =
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkGeometryFilter>::New();
>
> //============ BEGIN OF SECTION OF INTEREST
> // Convert point to cell data
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkPointDataToCellData> point2CellData =
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkPointDataToCellData>::New();
> point2CellData->PassPointDataOn();
> point2CellData->SetInputData(model);
> point2CellData->Update();
>
> #define USE_P2C
> #ifdef USE_P2C
> // Neither of these "setActiveScalars" makes any difference
> //model->GetCellData()->SetActiveScalars(fieldname.c_str());
> //model->GetPointData()->SetActiveScalars(fieldname.c_str());
> geometryFilter->SetInputData(point2CellData->GetOutput());
> geometryFilter->SetInputArrayToProcess(0, 0, 0,
> vtkDataObject::FIELD_ASSOCIATION_CELLS, fieldname.c_str()); // cells
> because I transfered the data
> #else
> model->GetPointData()->SetActiveScalars(fieldname.c_str());
> geometryFilter->SetInputData(model);
> geometryFilter->SetInputArrayToProcess(0, 0, 0,
> vtkDataObject::FIELD_ASSOCIATION_POINTS, fieldname.c_str());
> #endif
>
> colorMapper->SetInputConnection(geometryFilter->GetOutputPort());
>
> //============ END OF SECTION OF INTEREST
>
> colorMapper->SetScalarRange(297, 637); //hardcoded to reduce code length
> colorActor->SetMapper(colorMapper);
> colorMapper->ScalarVisibilityOn();
>
> // Usual rendering stuff, nothing of interest from here onwards
> //Create a renderer, render window, and interactor
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer> renderer =
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer>::New();
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow> renderWindow =
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow>::New();
> renderWindow->AddRenderer(renderer);
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor> renderWindowInteractor =
> vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor>::New();
> renderWindowInteractor->SetRenderWindow(renderWindow);
> //Add the actor to the scene
> renderer->AddActor(colorActor);
> renderer->SetBackground(.3, .6, .3); // Background color green
> //Render and interact
> renderWindow->Render();
> renderWindowInteractor->Start();
> return EXIT_SUCCESS;
> }
>
>
> Thank you!.
>
> 2016-02-18 17:05 GMT+01:00 Ken Martin <ken.martin at kitware.com>:
>
>> Hello Fernando,
>>
>> Making sure that I understand the issue. Essentially you have defined
>> scalars/colors on the points of a triangle. With phong shading the colors
>> interpolate across the triangle. With flat shading on the old backend, the
>> system takes the color of the first point and uses that for the entire
>> triangle. On the new backend the colors are still interpolated across the
>> triangle.  Is that the issue you see?
>>
>> If so, then the issue is that on the new backend I am interpreting
>> shading to only mean lighting and normal calculations while in the old
>> backend it seems to include vertex color properties (but not other
>> properties such as tcoords, hmm wonder what happens with flat shading and
>> texture based coloring) In modern OpenGL (version 3.2 ) you can specify
>> flat versus smooth interpolation by attribute. So normals could be flat
>> while colors are smooth. Without requiring OpenGL 3.2 we would need to
>> rebuild the VBO each time you switch between flat and smooth, basically
>> treating flat shading as if you had cell colors instead of point colors.
>>
>> If backward compatibility was not an issue :-) I would suggest moving to
>> require OpenGL 3.2 and then modifying vtkProperty so that people can
>> independently specify if they want normals/colors/etc to be
>> flat/smooth/perspective.
>>
>> One stopgap, you could use vtkPointDataToCellData to essentially
>> accomplish what you want in either back end.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ken
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Fernando Nellmeldin <
>> f.nellmeldin at open-engineering.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello friends.
>>>
>>> In our application, we want to allow the user to alternate between a
>>> flat and a smooth shading of the colors in an actor. To do this, we have a
>>> option that allows the user to call setInterpolationToFlat() or
>>> setInterpolationToPhong() in the property of the vtkactor.
>>>
>>> The problem is that the call to set flat is not working, there is no
>>> change and the actor is always rendered smooth.
>>>
>>> I've tried with VTK 6.3.0 and VTK 7.0.0 under OpenGL2 backend. In VTK
>>> 5.10 (using the old opengl), this works as expected.
>>>
>>> And please note that in the three cases, the code is exactly the same.
>>> Well, except the connection between the ugrid and the geometry filter that
>>> I have the usual if:
>>> #if VTK_MAJOR_VERSION <= 5
>>> geometryFilter->SetInputConnection(m_model->GetProducerPort());
>>> #else
>>> geometryFilter->SetInputData(m_model);
>>> #endif
>>>
>>> Therefore, is the support of flat interpolation dropped, or I have to
>>> add something to make it work under OpenGL2 backend?
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
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