EigenSymmetric
Repository source: EigenSymmetric
Description¶
At the moment, this is a pretty messy process, so here are some helper functions that will hopefully eventually be wrapped into a class/interface.
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Code¶
EigenSymmetric.cxx
#include <vtkMath.h>
namespace {
/* allocate memory for an nrow x ncol matrix */
template <class TReal> TReal** create_matrix(long nrow, long ncol)
{
  typedef TReal* TRealPointer;
  TReal** m = new TRealPointer[nrow];
  TReal* block = static_cast<TReal*>(calloc(nrow * ncol, sizeof(TReal)));
  m[0] = block;
  for (int row = 1; row < nrow; ++row)
  {
    m[row] = &block[row * ncol];
  }
  return m;
}
/* free a TReal matrix allocated with matrix() */
template <class TReal> void free_matrix(TReal** m)
{
  free(m[0]);
  delete[] m;
}
} // namespace
int main(int, char*[])
{
  // Create this matrix
  // 1 2 3
  // 2 5 9
  // 3 9 8
  double** a = create_matrix<double>(3, 3);
  a[0][0] = 1;
  a[0][1] = 2;
  a[0][2] = 3;
  a[1][0] = 2;
  a[1][1] = 5;
  a[1][2] = 9;
  a[2][0] = 3;
  a[2][1] = 9;
  a[2][2] = 8;
  // create a matrix for the eigenvectors to be stored in
  double** w = create_matrix<double>(3, 3);
  // create a vector for the eigenvalues to be stored in
  double v[3];
  // compute the eigenvalues/vectors
  vtkMath::Jacobi(a, v, w);
  // output eigen values
  std::cout << "Eigen values (decreasing order): " << std::endl;
  for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
  {
    std::cout << v[i] << " ";
  }
  // output eigenvectors
  std::cout << "Eigen vectors (same order as eigen values): " << std::endl;
  for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
  {
    // the columns of w are the eigenvectors
    std::cout << "Eigen vector " << i << " : " << w[0][i] << " " << w[1][i]
              << " " << w[2][i] << std::endl;
  }
  // clean up
  free_matrix(w);
  free_matrix(a);
  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
CMakeLists.txt¶
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.12 FATAL_ERROR)
project(EigenSymmetric)
find_package(VTK COMPONENTS 
  CommonCore
)
if (NOT VTK_FOUND)
  message(FATAL_ERROR "EigenSymmetric: 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(EigenSymmetric MACOSX_BUNDLE EigenSymmetric.cxx )
  target_link_libraries(EigenSymmetric PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES}
)
# vtk_module_autoinit is needed
vtk_module_autoinit(
  TARGETS EigenSymmetric
  MODULES ${VTK_LIBRARIES}
)
Download and Build EigenSymmetric¶
Click here to download EigenSymmetric and its CMakeLists.txt file. Once the tarball EigenSymmetric.tar has been downloaded and extracted,
cd EigenSymmetric/build
If VTK is installed:
cmake ..
If VTK is not installed but compiled on your system, you will need to specify the path to your VTK build:
cmake -DVTK_DIR:PATH=/home/me/vtk_build ..
Build the project:
make
and run it:
./EigenSymmetric
WINDOWS USERS
Be sure to add the VTK bin directory to your path. This will resolve the VTK dll's at run time.