VTK/Examples/Cxx/Visualization/MultipleViewports

This example creates a window with 4 viewports.

MultipleViewports.cxx

#include <vtkSphereSource.h>
#include <vtkProperty.h>
#include <vtkPolyData.h>
#include <vtkSmartPointer.h>
#include <vtkPolyDataMapper.h>
#include <vtkActor.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindow.h>
#include <vtkRenderer.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h>

int main(int, char *[])
{
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow> renderWindow = 
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow>::New();
  
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor> renderWindowInteractor = 
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor>::New();
  
  renderWindowInteractor->SetRenderWindow(renderWindow);
  
  // Define viewport ranges
  double xmins[4] = {0,.5,0,.5};
  double xmaxs[4] = {0.5,1,0.5,1};
  double ymins[4] = {0,0,.5,.5};
  double ymaxs[4]= {0.5,0.5,1,1};
  for(unsigned i = 0; i < 4; i++)
    {
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer> renderer = 
      vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer>::New();
        
    renderWindow->AddRenderer(renderer);
    renderer->SetViewport(xmins[i],ymins[i],xmaxs[i],ymaxs[i]);
    
    // Create a sphere
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkSphereSource> sphereSource = 
      vtkSmartPointer<vtkSphereSource>::New();
    sphereSource->SetCenter(0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
    sphereSource->SetRadius(5);
    sphereSource->Update();
      
    // Create a mapper and actor
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper> mapper = 
      vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper>::New();
    mapper->SetInputConnection(sphereSource->GetOutputPort());
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor> actor = vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor>::New();
    actor->SetMapper(mapper);
    renderer->AddActor(actor);
    renderer->ResetCamera();
    
    renderWindow->Render();
    renderWindow->SetWindowName("Multiple ViewPorts");
    }

  renderWindowInteractor->Start();
    
  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

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CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)

PROJECT(MultipleViewports)

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

add_executable(MultipleViewports MACOSX_BUNDLE MultipleViewports.cxx)

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

Download and Build MultipleViewports

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

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

cd MultipleViewports/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:

./MultipleViewports

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.

Something besides grey spheres on black background! Different colored backgrounds will show the separation between the renderers.