ClipSphereCylinder

Description¶

Clipping is implemented in vtkClipPolyData . Each polygonal data primitive implements the operation in its Clip() method using case tables. vtkClipPolyData has methods to control whether an implicit function provides the scalar data or whether the dataset’s scalar data will be used. ComputeScalarDataOn() uses the implicit function and ComputeScalarDataOff() uses the dataset’s scalar data. Two output polygonal datasets are produced. These are accessed with GetOutput() and GetClippedOutput() methods. GetOutput() returns the polygonal data that is “inside” the clipping region while GetClippedOutput() returns polygonal data that is “outside” the region. (Note that GenerateClippedOutputOn() must be enabled if you are to get the clipped output.) The meaning of inside and outside can be reversed using the InsideOutOn().

This example shows a plane of quadrilaterals clipped with a boolean implicit function.

Info

See Figure 9-48 in Chapter 9 The VTK Textbook.

Other languages

See (Cxx), (PythonicAPI)

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Code¶

ClipSphereCylinder.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# noinspection PyUnresolvedReferences
import vtkmodules.vtkInteractionStyle
# noinspection PyUnresolvedReferences
import vtkmodules.vtkRenderingOpenGL2
from vtkmodules.vtkCommonColor import vtkNamedColors
from vtkmodules.vtkCommonDataModel import (
    vtkCylinder,
    vtkImplicitBoolean,
    vtkSphere
)
from vtkmodules.vtkCommonTransforms import vtkTransform
from vtkmodules.vtkFiltersCore import vtkClipPolyData
from vtkmodules.vtkFiltersSources import vtkPlaneSource
from vtkmodules.vtkRenderingCore import (
    vtkActor,
    vtkPolyDataMapper,
    vtkRenderWindow,
    vtkRenderWindowInteractor,
    vtkRenderer
)


def main():
    colors = vtkNamedColors()

    # Demonstrate the use of clipping on polygonal data
    #

    # create pipeline
    #
    plane = vtkPlaneSource()
    plane.SetXResolution(25)
    plane.SetYResolution(25)
    plane.SetOrigin(-1, -1, 0)
    plane.SetPoint1(1, -1, 0)
    plane.SetPoint2(-1, 1, 0)

    transformSphere = vtkTransform()
    transformSphere.Identity()
    transformSphere.Translate(0.4, -0.4, 0)
    transformSphere.Inverse()

    sphere = vtkSphere()
    sphere.SetTransform(transformSphere)
    sphere.SetRadius(.5)

    transformCylinder = vtkTransform()
    transformCylinder.Identity()
    transformCylinder.Translate(-0.4, 0.4, 0)
    transformCylinder.RotateZ(30)
    transformCylinder.RotateY(60)
    transformCylinder.RotateX(90)
    transformCylinder.Inverse()

    cylinder = vtkCylinder()
    cylinder.SetTransform(transformCylinder)
    cylinder.SetRadius(.3)

    boolean = vtkImplicitBoolean()
    boolean.AddFunction(cylinder)
    boolean.AddFunction(sphere)

    clipper = vtkClipPolyData()
    clipper.SetInputConnection(plane.GetOutputPort())
    clipper.SetClipFunction(boolean)
    clipper.GenerateClippedOutputOn()
    clipper.GenerateClipScalarsOn()
    clipper.SetValue(0)

    clipMapper = vtkPolyDataMapper()
    clipMapper.SetInputConnection(clipper.GetOutputPort())
    clipMapper.ScalarVisibilityOff()

    clipActor = vtkActor()
    clipActor.SetMapper(clipMapper)
    clipActor.GetProperty().SetDiffuseColor(colors.GetColor3d('MidnightBlue'))
    clipActor.GetProperty().SetRepresentationToWireframe()

    clipInsideMapper = vtkPolyDataMapper()
    clipInsideMapper.SetInputData(clipper.GetClippedOutput())
    clipInsideMapper.ScalarVisibilityOff()

    clipInsideActor = vtkActor()
    clipInsideActor.SetMapper(clipInsideMapper)
    clipInsideActor.GetProperty().SetDiffuseColor(colors.GetColor3d('LightBlue'))

    # Create graphics stuff
    #
    ren1 = vtkRenderer()

    renWin = vtkRenderWindow()
    renWin.AddRenderer(ren1)
    renWin.SetWindowName('ClipSphereCylinder')

    iren = vtkRenderWindowInteractor()
    iren.SetRenderWindow(renWin)

    # Add the actors to the renderer, set the background and size
    #
    ren1.AddActor(clipActor)

    ren1.AddActor(clipInsideActor)
    ren1.SetBackground(colors.GetColor3d('Wheat'))
    ren1.ResetCamera()
    ren1.GetActiveCamera().Dolly(1.4)
    ren1.ResetCameraClippingRange()

    renWin.SetSize(640, 480)

    # render the image
    #
    renWin.Render()
    iren.Start()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()