Cube

#include <vtkActor.h>
#include <vtkCamera.h>
#include <vtkCellArray.h>
#include <vtkFloatArray.h>
#include <vtkNamedColors.h>
#include <vtkNew.h>
#include <vtkPointData.h>
#include <vtkPoints.h>
#include <vtkPolyData.h>
#include <vtkPolyDataMapper.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindow.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h>
#include <vtkRenderer.h>

#include <array>

int main(int, char*[])
{
  vtkNew<vtkNamedColors> colors;

  std::array<std::array<double, 3>, 8> pts = {{{{0, 0, 0}},
                                               {{1, 0, 0}},
                                               {{1, 1, 0}},
                                               {{0, 1, 0}},
                                               {{0, 0, 1}},
                                               {{1, 0, 1}},
                                               {{1, 1, 1}},
                                               {{0, 1, 1}}}};
  // The ordering of the corner points on each face.
  std::array<std::array<vtkIdType, 4>, 6> ordering = {{{{0, 3, 2, 1}},
                                                       {{4, 5, 6, 7}},
                                                       {{0, 1, 5, 4}},
                                                       {{1, 2, 6, 5}},
                                                       {{2, 3, 7, 6}},
                                                       {{3, 0, 4, 7}}}};

  // We'll create the building blocks of polydata including data attributes.
  vtkNew<vtkPolyData> cube;
  vtkNew<vtkPoints> points;
  vtkNew<vtkCellArray> polys;
  vtkNew<vtkFloatArray> scalars;

  // Load the point, cell, and data attributes.
  for (auto i = 0ul; i < pts.size(); ++i)
  {
    points->InsertPoint(i, pts[i].data());
    scalars->InsertTuple1(i, i);
  }
  for (auto&& i : ordering)
  {
    polys->InsertNextCell(vtkIdType(i.size()), i.data());
  }

  // We now assign the pieces to the vtkPolyData.
  cube->SetPoints(points);
  cube->SetPolys(polys);
  cube->GetPointData()->SetScalars(scalars);

  // Now we'll look at it.
  vtkNew<vtkPolyDataMapper> cubeMapper;
  cubeMapper->SetInputData(cube);
  cubeMapper->SetScalarRange(cube->GetScalarRange());
  vtkNew<vtkActor> cubeActor;
  cubeActor->SetMapper(cubeMapper);

  // The usual rendering stuff.
  vtkNew<vtkCamera> camera;
  camera->SetPosition(1, 1, 1);
  camera->SetFocalPoint(0, 0, 0);

  vtkNew<vtkRenderer> renderer;
  vtkNew<vtkRenderWindow> renWin;
  renWin->AddRenderer(renderer);
  renWin->SetWindowName("Cube");

  vtkNew<vtkRenderWindowInteractor> iren;
  iren->SetRenderWindow(renWin);

  renderer->AddActor(cubeActor);
  renderer->SetActiveCamera(camera);
  renderer->ResetCamera();
  renderer->SetBackground(colors->GetColor3d("Cornsilk").GetData());

  renWin->SetSize(600, 600);

  // interact with data
  renWin->Render();
  iren->Start();

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.12 FATAL_ERROR)

project(Cube)

find_package(VTK COMPONENTS 
  CommonColor
  CommonCore
  CommonDataModel
  InteractionStyle
  RenderingContextOpenGL2
  RenderingCore
  RenderingFreeType
  RenderingGL2PSOpenGL2
  RenderingOpenGL2
)

if (NOT VTK_FOUND)
  message(FATAL_ERROR "Cube: Unable to find the VTK build folder.")
endif()

# Prevent a "command line is too long" failure in Windows.
set(CMAKE_NINJA_FORCE_RESPONSE_FILE "ON" CACHE BOOL "Force Ninja to use response files.")
add_executable(Cube MACOSX_BUNDLE Cube.cxx )
  target_link_libraries(Cube PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES}
)
# vtk_module_autoinit is needed
vtk_module_autoinit(
  TARGETS Cube
  MODULES ${VTK_LIBRARIES}
)

cd Cube/build

cmake ..

cmake -DVTK_DIR:PATH=/home/me/vtk_build ..

make

./Cube