VTK/Examples/Cxx/Images/ImageCityBlockDistance

Compute the Manhattan distance from every point to every black point in a binary image.

ImageCityBlockDistance.cxx

#include <vtkImageData.h>
#include <vtkImageMapper3D.h>
#include <vtkImageCast.h>
#include <vtkImageThreshold.h>
#include <vtkJPEGReader.h>
#include <vtkPNGReader.h>
#include <vtkSmartPointer.h>
#include <vtkImageExtractComponents.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindow.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h>
#include <vtkInteractorStyleImage.h>
#include <vtkRenderer.h>
#include <vtkJPEGReader.h>
#include <vtkImageActor.h>
#include <vtkImageCityBlockDistance.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  // Verify command line arguments
  if (argc < 2 )
    {
    std::cout << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " BinaryImage.jpg" << std::endl;
    return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }

  // Parse command line arguments
  std::string inputFilename = argv[1];

  // Read file
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkJPEGReader> reader =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkJPEGReader>::New();
  reader->SetFileName(inputFilename.c_str());
  reader->Update();

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkImageCast> castFilter =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkImageCast>::New();
  castFilter->SetOutputScalarTypeToShort();
  castFilter->SetInputConnection(reader->GetOutputPort());

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkImageCityBlockDistance> cityBlockDistanceFilter =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkImageCityBlockDistance>::New();
  cityBlockDistanceFilter->SetInputConnection(castFilter->GetOutputPort());
  cityBlockDistanceFilter->SetDimensionality(2);
  cityBlockDistanceFilter->Update();

  // Create actors
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkImageCast> inputCastFilter =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkImageCast>::New();
  inputCastFilter->SetOutputScalarTypeToUnsignedChar();
  inputCastFilter->SetInputConnection(reader->GetOutputPort());

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkImageActor> inputActor =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkImageActor>::New();
  inputActor->GetMapper()->SetInputConnection(inputCastFilter->GetOutputPort());

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkImageCast> distanceCastFilter =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkImageCast>::New();
  distanceCastFilter->SetOutputScalarTypeToUnsignedChar();
  distanceCastFilter->SetInputConnection(cityBlockDistanceFilter->GetOutputPort());

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkImageActor> distanceActor =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkImageActor>::New();
  distanceActor->GetMapper()->SetInputConnection(
    distanceCastFilter->GetOutputPort());

  // Define viewport ranges
  // (xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax)
  double inputViewport[4] = {0.0, 0.0, 0.5, 1.0};
  double distanceViewport[4] = {0.5, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0};

  // Setup renderers
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer> inputRenderer =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer>::New();
  inputRenderer->SetViewport(inputViewport);
  inputRenderer->AddActor(inputActor);
  inputRenderer->ResetCamera();
  inputRenderer->SetBackground(.4, .5, .9);

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer> distanceRenderer =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer>::New();
  distanceRenderer->SetViewport(distanceViewport);
  distanceRenderer->AddActor(distanceActor);
  distanceRenderer->ResetCamera();
  distanceRenderer->SetBackground(.4, .5, .7);

  // Setup render window
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow> renderWindow =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow>::New();
  renderWindow->SetSize(600, 300);
  renderWindow->AddRenderer(inputRenderer);
  renderWindow->AddRenderer(distanceRenderer);

  // Setup render window interactor
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor> renderWindowInteractor =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor>::New();
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkInteractorStyleImage> style =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkInteractorStyleImage>::New();

  renderWindowInteractor->SetInteractorStyle(style);

  // Render and start interaction
  renderWindowInteractor->SetRenderWindow(renderWindow);
  renderWindowInteractor->Initialize();

  renderWindowInteractor->Start();
  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

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CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)

PROJECT(ImageCityBlockDistance)

find_package(VTK REQUIRED)
include(${VTK_USE_FILE})

add_executable(ImageCityBlockDistance MACOSX_BUNDLE ImageCityBlockDistance.cxx)

if(VTK_LIBRARIES)
  target_link_libraries(ImageCityBlockDistance ${VTK_LIBRARIES})
else()
  target_link_libraries(ImageCityBlockDistance vtkHybrid vtkWidgets)
endif()

Download and Build ImageCityBlockDistance

Click here to download ImageCityBlockDistance. and its CMakeLists.txt file.

Once the tarball ImageCityBlockDistance.tar has been downloaded and extracted,

cd ImageCityBlockDistance/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:

./ImageCityBlockDistance

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