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vtk-examples/Cxx/PolyData/ThresholdCells

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Code

ThresholdCells.cxx

#include <vtkCellArray.h>
#include <vtkCellData.h>
#include <vtkIntArray.h>
#include <vtkNew.h>
#include <vtkPoints.h>
#include <vtkPolyData.h>
#include <vtkThreshold.h>
#include <vtkTriangle.h>
#include <vtkUnstructuredGrid.h>

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

int main(int, char*[])
{
  vtkNew<vtkPoints> points;
  points->InsertNextPoint(0, 0, 0);
  points->InsertNextPoint(1, 1, 1);
  points->InsertNextPoint(2, 2, 2);
  points->InsertNextPoint(3, 3, 3);
  points->InsertNextPoint(4, 4, 4);

  // Create three triangles.
  vtkNew<vtkTriangle> triangle0;
  triangle0->GetPointIds()->SetId(0, 0);
  triangle0->GetPointIds()->SetId(1, 1);
  triangle0->GetPointIds()->SetId(2, 2);

  vtkNew<vtkTriangle> triangle1;
  triangle1->GetPointIds()->SetId(0, 1);
  triangle1->GetPointIds()->SetId(1, 2);
  triangle1->GetPointIds()->SetId(2, 3);

  vtkNew<vtkTriangle> triangle2;
  triangle2->GetPointIds()->SetId(0, 2);
  triangle2->GetPointIds()->SetId(1, 3);
  triangle2->GetPointIds()->SetId(2, 4);

  // Add the triangles to a cell array.
  vtkNew<vtkCellArray> triangles;
  triangles->InsertNextCell(triangle0);
  triangles->InsertNextCell(triangle1);
  triangles->InsertNextCell(triangle2);

  // Setup index array.
  vtkNew<vtkIntArray> index;
  index->SetNumberOfComponents(1);
  index->SetName("index");
  index->InsertNextValue(0);
  index->InsertNextValue(1);
  index->InsertNextValue(2);

  // Add points, cells and index array to a polydata.
  vtkNew<vtkPolyData> polydata;
  polydata->SetPoints(points);
  polydata->SetPolys(triangles);
  polydata->GetCellData()->AddArray(index);

  std::cout << "There are " << polydata->GetNumberOfCells()
            << " cells before thresholding." << std::endl;

  vtkNew<vtkThreshold> threshold;
  threshold->SetInputData(polydata);
  threshold->SetLowerThreshold(1);
  threshold->SetThresholdFunction(vtkThreshold::THRESHOLD_LOWER);
  // Doesn't work because the array is not added as SCALARS, i.e. via SetScalars
  // threshold->SetInputArrayToProcess(0, 0, 0,
  // vtkDataObject::FIELD_ASSOCIATION_CELLS, vtkDataSetAttributes::SCALARS); use
  // like this:
  threshold->SetInputArrayToProcess(
      0, 0, 0, vtkDataObject::FIELD_ASSOCIATION_CELLS, "index");
  threshold->Update();

  vtkUnstructuredGrid* thresholdedPolydata = threshold->GetOutput();
  std::cout << "There are " << thresholdedPolydata->GetNumberOfCells()
            << " cells after thresholding." << std::endl;

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.12 FATAL_ERROR)

project(ThresholdCells)

find_package(VTK COMPONENTS 
  CommonCore
  CommonDataModel
  FiltersCore
)

if (NOT VTK_FOUND)
  message(FATAL_ERROR "ThresholdCells: 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(ThresholdCells MACOSX_BUNDLE ThresholdCells.cxx )
  target_link_libraries(ThresholdCells PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES}
)
# vtk_module_autoinit is needed
vtk_module_autoinit(
  TARGETS ThresholdCells
  MODULES ${VTK_LIBRARIES}
)

Download and Build ThresholdCells

Click here to download ThresholdCells and its CMakeLists.txt file. Once the tarball ThresholdCells.tar has been downloaded and extracted,

cd ThresholdCells/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:

./ThresholdCells

WINDOWS USERS

Be sure to add the VTK bin directory to your path. This will resolve the VTK dll's at run time.