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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>That figures. I was so focused on the problem being the input surface that I didn't bother checking the type and output of vtkPlaneSource. Thanks for the swift reply, changing the code to the following worked perfectly:<br><br> # Circumference plane (used to cut)<br> circPlane = vtk.vtkPlane()<br> circPlane.SetOrigin(G - 150*self.midSagittalPlaneNormal)<br> circPlane.SetNormal(self.circPlaneNormal)<br><br> surface = vtk.vtkSTLReader()<br> surface.SetFileName(fileName)<br><br> # Cut a slice out of the surface and convert it to a PolyData object<br> cutEdges = vtk.vtkCutter()<br> cutEdges.SetInputConnection(surface.GetOutputPort())<br> cutEdges.SetCutFunction(circPlane)<br> cutEdges.GenerateCutScalarsOn()<br> cutEdges.SetValue(0, 0.5)<br> cutStrips = vtk.vtkStripper()<br> cutStrips.SetInputConnection(cutEdges.GetOutputPort())<br> cutStrips.Update()<br> cutPoly = vtk.vtkPolyData()<br> cutPoly.SetPoints(cutStrips.GetOutput().GetPoints())<br> cutPoly.SetPolys(cutStrips.GetOutput().GetLines())<br><br> # Extract boundary from cutPoly<br> cutBoundary = vtk.vtkFeatureEdges()<br> cutBoundary.SetInput(cutPoly)<br> cutBoundary.Update()<br><br> # Write cut line to .vtk file<br> polyWriter = vtk.vtkPolyDataWriter()<br> polyWriter.SetInput(cutBoundary.GetOutput())<br> polyWriter.SetFileName("test.vtk")<br> polyWriter.Write()<br><br>A follow-up question: what if I want to visualize the plane to check whether it is at the right place? I suspect an implicit function can't be visualized as such and I would first need to convert it to a polydata object. What is the best way to do this? If I do:<br><br> circPlane = vtk.vtkPlane()<br> circPlane.SetOrigin(G - 150*self.midSagittalPlaneNormal)<br> circPlane.SetNormal(circPlaneNormal)<br><br> circPlaneSource = vtk.vtkPlaneSource()<br> circPlaneSource.SetOrigin(circPlane.GetOrigin())<br> circPlaneSource.SetNormal(circPlane.GetNormal())<br> circPlaneSource.SetPoint1(Op -<br> 150*self.midSagittalPlaneNormal)<br> circPlaneSource.SetPoint2(G +<br> 150*self.midSagittalPlaneNormal)<br> circPlaneSource.SetResolution(15,15)<br> circPlaneSource.Update()<br><br> self.circPlaneMapper = vtk.vtkPolyDataMapper()<br> self.circPlaneMapper.SetInput(circPlaneSource.GetOutput())<br> self.circPlaneMapper.SetScalarVisibility(False)<br><br> self.circPlaneActor = vtk.vtkActor()<br> self.circPlaneActor.GetProperty().SetColor( 0.0 , 1.0 , 0.0 )<br> self.circPlaneActor.GetProperty().SetOpacity( 1 )<br> self.circPlaneActor.SetMapper(self.circPlaneMapper)<br> self.circPlaneActor.GetProperty().SetRepresentationToWireframe()<br><br> self.renderer.AddActor(self.circPlaneActor)<br><br>I do see a plane, but it's the inclination is wrong (different from the intersection made by the vtkCutter, because when I visualize the extracted boundary on the surface it is at exactly the right place). If I comment the circPlaneSource.SetPoint functions, I don't even get a plane, just a line. (Which is probably to be expected, since the renderer needs to know the boundaries within which the plane should be drawn, right?) <br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 12:10:45 -0400<br>Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Intersection of plane with 3D surface using vtkCutter<br>From: bill.lorensen@gmail.com<br>To: lacko.daniel@outlook.com<br>CC: vtkusers@vtk.org<br><br><div dir="ltr">You need a vtkPlane, not a vtkPlaneSource to do the cutting. The vtkPlaceSource produces polydata. The vtkPlane is an implicit function. vtkCutter uses implicit functions to cut the data.<div><br></div><div>
<br></div></div><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><br><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Daniël Lacko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lacko.daniel@outlook.com" target="_blank">lacko.daniel@outlook.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<br><br>I'm trying to calculate the circumference of the human head in 3D. I'm using VTK 5.10.1 and Python 2.7 64-bit. I want to calculate the intersection of a plane passing through certain point on the head. I then want to extract the boundary and calculate the length of this polyline. First, I want to visualize the boundary to make sure the extraction is working as expected.<br>
<br>As far as I understand, I can use vtkCutter to cut a slice from the original image. When I modify the vtkCutter ClipCow.py example, I can use vtkFeatureExtract to extract the boundary and write it to a .vtk file for visualization:<br>
<br> # Here we are cutting the cow. Cutting creates lines where the cut<br> # function intersects the model. (Clipping removes a portion of the<br> # model but the dimension of the data does not change.)<br> #<br>
# The reason we are cutting is to generate a closed polygon at the<br> # boundary of the clipping process. The cutter generates line<br> # segments, the stripper then puts them together into polylines. We<br> # then pull a trick and define polygons using the closed line<br>
# segments that the stripper created.<br> cutEdges = vtk.vtkCutter()<br> cutEdges.SetInputConnection(cow.GetOutputPort())<br> cutEdges.SetCutFunction(plane)<br> cutEdges.GenerateCutScalarsOn()<br> cutEdges.SetValue(0, 0.5)<br>
cutStrips = vtk.vtkStripper()<br> cutStrips.SetInputConnection(cutEdges.GetOutputPort())<br> cutStrips.Update()<br> cutPoly = vtk.vtkPolyData()<br> cutPoly.SetPoints(cutStrips.GetOutput().GetPoints())<br> cutPoly.SetPolys(cutStrips.GetOutput().GetLines())<br>
<br> # Extract boundary from cutPoly<br> cutBoundary = vtk.vtkFeatureEdges()<br> cutBoundary.SetInput(cutPoly)<br> cutBoundary.Update()<br> # Write cut line to .vtk file<br> polyWriter = vtk.vtkPolyDataWriter()<br>
polyWriter.SetInput(cutBoundary.GetOutput())<br> polyWriter.SetFileName("cutPoly.vtk")<br> polyWriter.Write()<br><br>The code works as intended. However, if I try using it with my own code, it won't read the surface data correctly:<br>
<br> # Circumference plane (used to cut)<br> circPlaneSource = vtk.vtkPlaneSource()<br> circPlaneSource.SetOrigin(G - <br> 150*self.midSagittalPlaneNormal)<br> circPlaneSource.SetPoint1(Op -<br> 150*self.midSagittalPlaneNormal)<br>
circPlaneSource.SetPoint2(G +<br> 150*self.midSagittalPlaneNormal)<br> circPlaneSource.SetResolution(15, 15)<br> circPlaneSource.Update()<br><br> surface = vtk.vtkSTLReader()<br> surface.SetFileName(fileName)<br>
<br> # Cut a slice out of the surface and convert it to a PolyData object<br> cutEdges = vtk.vtkCutter()<br> cutEdges.SetInputConnection(surface.GetOutputPort())<br> cutEdges.SetCutFunction(circPlaneSource.GetOutput())<br>
cutEdges.GenerateCutScalarsOn()<br> cutEdges.SetValue(0, 0.5)<br> cutStrips = vtk.vtkStripper()<br> cutStrips.SetInputConnection(cutEdges.GetOutputPort())<br> cutStrips.Update()<br> cutPoly = vtk.vtkPolyData()<br>
cutPoly.SetPoints(cutStrips.GetOutput().GetPoints())<br> cutPoly.SetPolys(cutStrips.GetOutput().GetLines())<br> <br> # Extract boundary from cutPoly<br> cutBoundary = vtk.vtkFeatureEdges()<br> cutBoundary.SetInput(cutPoly)<br>
cutBoundary.Update()<br><br> # Write cut line to .vtk file<br> polyWriter = vtk.vtkPolyDataWriter()<br> polyWriter.SetInput(cutBoundary.GetOutput())<br> polyWriter.SetFileName("test.vtk")<br> polyWriter.Write()<br>
<br>I don't get an error message, the code just hangs at the cutEdges.SetInputConnection(...). The only significant difference as far as I can tell is that I'm using an .stl file instead of a .g file. Shouldn't the outputport data from vtkSTLReader and vtkBYUReader be the same (a vtkAlgorithm object in this case)? <br>
<br>Though I've been using bits and pieces of vtk code over the past year, I'm still very unexperienced in VTK (and image processing in general). Am I supposed to extract the data from vtkSTLReader in a different way? Any help would be greatly appreciated.<br>
<br>Kind regards,<br><br>Daniel<br> </div></div>
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