Java Examples¶

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VTK Classes Summary¶

This Python script, SelectExamples, will let you select examples based on a VTK Class and language. It requires Python 3.7 or later. The following tables will produce similar information.

• VTK Classes with Examples, this table is really useful when searching for example(s) using a particular class.

• VTK Classes with No Examples, please add examples in your area of expertise!

Hello World¶

Example Name	Description	Image
A hello world example	Cylinder example from the VTK Textbook and source code. A hello world example.

Input and Output¶

Graph Formats¶

3D File Formats¶

Standard Formats¶

Input¶

Example Name	Description	Image
DEMReader	Read DEM (elevation map) files
ParticleReader	This example reads ASCII files where each line consists of points with its position (x,y,z) and (optionally) one scalar or binary files in RAW 3d file format.
ReadCML	Read Chemistry Markup Language files.
ReadOBJ	Read an OBJ (.obj) file.
ReadPLOT3D	Read PLOT3D data files.
ReadPLY	Read PLY (.ply) files
ReadSLC	Read an SLC volume file.
ReadSTL	Read stereo lithography STL (.stl) files.
SimplePointsReader	Read a simple "xyz" file of points.

Importers¶

Example Name	Description	Image
ThreeDSImporter	Import a 3D Studio scene that includes multiple actors.
VRMLImporter	Import a VRML 2.0 (WRL) file.

Output¶

Example Name	Description	Image
SimplePointsWriter	Write a simple ".xyz" file
WritePLY	Write PLY (.ply) files.
WriteSTL	Write stereo lithography STL (.stl) files.

VTK Formats¶

Input¶

Example Name	Description	Image
ReadPolyData	Read VTK XML PolyData files.
ReadRectilinearGrid	Read VTK XML RectilinearGrid files.
ReadStructuredGrid	Read VTK XML StructuredGrid files.
ReadVTP	Read a VTK XML PolyData file.

Output¶

Example Name	Description	Image
WriteVTP	Write a VTK XML PolyData file.
WriteVTU	Write a .vtu file. VTU is an "Unstructured Grid". This format allows for 3D data to be stored.
XMLPImageDataWriter	Write a .pvti file with 4 .vti pieces.
XMLPUnstructuredGridWriter	Write a .pvtu with 4 .vtu pieces.
XMLStructuredGridWriter	Write a .vts file from a vtkStructuredGrid.

Legacy VTK Formats¶

Example Name	Description	Image
StructuredPointsReader	Read a structured points (.vtk) file.

Image Format¶

Input¶

Example Name	Description	Image
JPEGReader	Read a JPEG image.
ReadBMP	Read Windows BMP files.
ReadDICOM	Read DICOM images.
ReadPNM	Read PNM (.pnm) files.
ReadTIFF	Read TIFF (.tif) files.

Output¶

Example Name	Description	Image
JPEGWriter	Write a JPEG file.
PNGReader	Read a PNG image.
WritePNM	Write a PNM (.pnm) file.
WriteTIFF	Write a TIFF (.tif) file.

Annotation¶

Example Name	Description	Image
MultiLineText	MultiLineText
TextOrigin	TextOrigin

CompositeData¶

Example Name	Description	Image
CompositePolyDataMapper	CompositePolyDataMapper

Filtering¶

Example Name	Description	Image
Delaunay2D	An example to generate set of points and to triangulate using Delaunay2D
Glyph2D	Example to copy a polydata to everypoint in the input set.
Glyph3D	This example applies an object at every point using vtkGlyph3D
PerlinNoise	An implicit function that implements Perlin noise.
TransformPolyData	Transforms points, associated normals and vectors for polygonal dataset
VertexGlyphFilter	Creates a set of points and adds a vertex at each point.
WarpTo	Deform geometry by warping towards a point

GeometricObjects¶

Example Name	Description	Image
Arrow	Arrow Visualization
Circle	Circle Visualization
Cone	Cone Visualization
ConvexPointSet	ConvexPointSet Visualization
Disk	Disk Visualization
EllipticalCylinder	EllipticalCylinder
Frustum	Frustum Visualization
Line	Line Visualization
LongLine	A visualization of a long line
OrientedArrow	Oriented Arrow visualization.
OrientedCylinder	Oriented Cylinder visualization
ParametricObjects	ParametricObjects Visualization
PlanesIntersection	PlanesIntersection
Polygon	Polygon Visualization
Pyramid	Pyramid Visualization
Quad	Quad Visualization
RegularPolygonSource	RegularPolygon Visualization
ShrinkCube	Applying shrink filter to an object.
TextActor	TextActor Demonstration
Triangle	Triangle Visualization
TriangleStrip	Triangle Strip Visualization
Vertex	Vertex Visualization

HyperTreeGrid¶

Example Name	Description	Image
HyperTreeGridSource	Demonstration of a hyper-tree grid source.

Geographic Visualization (Geovis)¶

Example Name	Description	Image
CompassWidget	CompassWidget Visualization
EarthSource	Earth Source Visualization
GeoAssignCoordinates	Convert latitude and longitude coordinates to world coordinates.

Graphs¶

Example Name	Description	Image
GraphPoints	Manually set the coordinates of vertices in a graph.
RandomGraphSource	A graph with random edges.
VisualizeGraph	An example to construct a graph and visualize it.

Working with Images¶

Example Name	Description	Image
Actor2D	A actor that draws 2D data
Cast	Image Data type Casting Filter.
ImageSinusoidSource	Creates an image with sinusoidal pixel values.
RTAnalyticSource	Creates an image for regression testing
StaticImage	Displays a 2D image

Image Processing¶

Example Name	Description	Image
Flip	Flips an image.
ImageFFT	Compute the Fast Fourier Transform of an image.
ImageTest	Use Java file dialog to select an image file to display.
ShotNoise	Create an image using vtkImageCanvasSource2D and write it to a file.

Implicit Functions and Iso-surfaces¶

Example Name	Description	Image
IceCream	How to use boolean combinations of implicit functions to create a model of an ice cream cone.
ImplicitDataSet	Implicit functions, implicit data set.
ImplicitSphere	ImplicitFunctions, Append poly data, tube filter, sphere
SampleFunction	Sample an implicit function over a structured point set.

User Interaction¶

Example Name	Description	Image
Assembly	Combine/group actors into an assembly.
InteractorStyleTerrain	Manipulate camera in scene with natural view up.
PickableOff	Disallow interaction with a specific actor.
RubberBandPick	Pick props underneath a rubber band selection rectangle.
RubberBandZoom	Zoom in by amount indicated by rubber band box.
StyleSwitch	Choose between multiple interaction modes.
TrackballActor	Trackball actor mode.
TrackballCamera	Trackball camera mode.

Working with Meshes¶

Example Name	Description	Image
AddCell	Add a cell to an existing mesh.
BoundaryEdges	Find the edges that are used by only one face.
DelaunayMesh	Two-dimensional Delaunay triangulation of a random set of points. Points and edges are shown highlighted with sphere glyphs and tubes.

Working with 3D Data¶

Example Name	Description	Image
Bottle	Sweeps polygonal data creating "skirt" from free edges and lines, and lines from vertices
CellCenters	Compute points at the center of every cell.
CenterOfMass	Compute the center of mass of the points.
ProjectSphere	Unroll a sphere or spherical-like model.
Spring	Rotation in combination with linear displacement and radius variation.

Working with Structured 3D Data¶

This section includes vtkImageData vtkStructuredGrid and vtkRectilinearGrid.

"ImageData" is not the traditional "flat, 2D image" you are used to. It is a special VTK data structure in the collection of 3D data structures provided by VTK. Here is an overview of these data structures. Image data can represent at typical 2D image, but also, a 3D volume.

vtkImageData¶

Example Name	Description	Image
ImageNormalize	Normalizes the scalar components for each point.
ImageWeightedSum	Add two or more images.

vtkStructuredPoints¶

Example Name	Description	Image
StructuredPointsToUnstructuredGrid	Convert a vtkStructuredPoints to a vtkUnstructuredGrid.
Vol	Creating a image data dataset. Scalar data is generated from the equation for a sphere. Volume dimensions are 26 x 26 x 26.

vtkStructuredGrid¶

Example Name	Description	Image
BlankPoint	Blank a point of a vtkStructuredGrid.
StructuredGridOutline	Creates a wireframe outline for structured grid.

This section includes vtkImageData, vtkStructuredGrid and vtkRectilinearGrid.

"ImageData" is not the traditional "flat, 2D image" you are used to. It is a special VTK data structure in the collection of 3D data structures provided by VTK. Here is an overview of these data structures. Image data can represent at typical 2D image, but also, a 3D volume.

vtkRectilinearGrid¶

Example Name	Description	Image
RectilinearGrid	A dataset that is topologically regular with variable spacing in the three coordinate directions
RectilinearGridToTetrahedra	Convert a vtkRectilinearGrid to a vtkUnstructuredGrid mesh.
VisualizeRectilinearGrid	Visualize the cells of a rectilinear grid.

Point Cloud Operations¶

Example Name	Description	Image
FitImplicitFunction	Extract points within a distance to an implicit function.

Data Structures¶

KD-Tree¶

Example Name	Description	Image
VisualizeKDTree	Show the levels of a KD Tree.

Octree¶

Rendering¶

Example Name	Description	Image
AmbientSpheres	Demonstrates the effect of ambient lighting on spheres.
ColoredSphere	A simple sphere.
Cone6	This example introduces 3D widgets. 3D widgets take advantage of the event/observer design pattern. Corresponds to the missing Step 6 Java example from VTK/Examples/Tutorial.
Mace	An example of multiple inputs and outputs.
SpecularSpheres	Demonstrates the effect of specular lighting on spheres.

Lighting¶

Example Name	Description	Image
LightActor	vtkLightActor Demonstration
SpotLight	vtkSpotLight Demonstration

Math Operations¶

Parallel¶

PolyData¶

Example Name	Description	Image
ColorCells	ColorCells
ColorCellsWithRGB	ColorCellsWithRGB
ColorDisconnectedRegions	ColorDisconnectedRegions
ColoredPoints	Example to visualize Colored Points.
ConvexHullShrinkWrap	ConvexHullShrinkWrap
KochanekSpline	KochanekSpline
MeshQuality	MeshQuality
Outline	Outline
Reflection	Reflection
RibbonFilter	RibbonFilter
RotationAroundLine	Rotation around a line.
RuledSurfaceFilter	Create a surface between lines.
Stripper	Stripper
ThinPlateSplineTransform	A nonlinear warp transformation.
TransformFilter	Transforms points, associated normals and vectors
TransformPipeline	Combining the transformation, in order to manipulate a group of vtkActor. Shown in the example robot arm motion.
TriangleColoredPoints	Adding color to each vertex of a triangle
TubeFilter	TubeFilter

Example Name	Description	Image
RenderView	An easier way to make objects appear on the screen using RenderView

Texture Mapping¶

Example Name	Description	Image
TexturePlane	Example of texture mapping.
TexturedSphere	Texture a sphere.

Utilities¶

Example Name	Description	Image
BrownianPoints	Produce a random vector at each point in a dataset.
ColorLookupTable	Color Lookup Table.
DiscretizableColorTransferFunction	Discretizable Color Transfer Function.
FullScreen	Example to Display Actors in a Full Screen Render Window.
FunctionParser	String function parser.
GetDataRoot	Find the path of VTK_DATA_ROOT.
PassThrough	Shallow copies the input into the output.
PiecewiseFunction	Interpolation using a piecewise function.
ReportRenderWindowCapabilities	Report the capabilities of a render window.
Screenshot	Use a vtkWindow as input to image pipeline.
TimerLog	Example to Demonstrate Timer support and logging.

Arrays¶

Video¶

Visualization¶

Example Name	Description	Image
AnimDataCone	Animate a cone by modifying the polydata points - uses Interaction M key (Motion) to toggle animation.
Animation	Move a sphere across a scene
AnnotatedCubeActor	A 3D cube with face labels.
BackfaceCulling	Turn on/off fast culling of polygons based on orientation of normal with respect to camera.
BackgroundColor	Example program to set the background color of the render window
BackgroundGradient	viewport having gradient background using the Background (bottom) and Background2 (top) colors.
BlobbyLogo	Blobby logo from VTK textbook.
Camera	A virtual camera for 3D rendering.
CameraActor	A frustum to represent a camera.
ColorActorEdges	Color the edges of an Actor.
ColorAnActor	Switch style interaction adds C and A key actions for selecting Camera or Actor interaction, and T and J key actions for Trackball or Joystick interaction mode. Adds charEvent observer callback to restore the missing E and Q events to quit.
ComplexV	ComplexV from the VTK Textbook.
CornerAnnotation	Write text in the corners of a window.
CubeAxesActor	Display three orthogonal axes with labels.
CubeAxesActor2D	This example uses the vtkCubeAxesActor2D to show your scene with axes to indicate the spatial extent of your data.
Cursor2D	Generates a 2D Cursor Representation.
Cursor3D	Generates a 3D Cursor Representation
CursorShape	Change the shape of the cursor.
Cutter	How to use vtkCutter by cutting through a cube.
DisplayCoordinateAxes	Display coordinate axes.
DistanceToCamera	Calculate distance from points to the camera.
DrawText	Display Text.
Follower	Draw text that stays right side up.
ImageOrientation	Orientation of the view of an image.
Legend	Draw symbols with text.
LegendScaleActor	Display the scale of a scene.
LineWidth	Change the width/thickness of lines in an actor.
LoopShrink	A network with a loop.
MoveActor	Moving an Actor.
MoveCamera	Moving the Camera.
MultipleActors	Multiple Actors.
MultipleViewports	Multiple Viewports.
NoShading
Opacity	Transparency, transparent.
OrientedGlyphs	Copies oriented and scaled glyph geometry to every input point
ProteinRibbons	Display pdb ribbons.
RandomProbe	Demonstrates how to probe a dataset with random points and select points inside the data set.
ScalarBarActor	Display a color bar.
ScalarBarActorColorSeries	Display a color bar with a color series lookup table.
ScalarVisibility	Switch between coloring the actor and coloring the data.
SideBySideViewports	Side by side viewports.
SpikeFran	Glyphs indicate surface normals on model of human face. Glyph positions are randomly selected.
VectorFieldExample	A vector field visualisation.
VisualizeImageData	Visualize the points of an ImageData.
VisualizeVTP	Visualize a VTP File.
WindowSize	Change the size of a window.
WireframeSphere	A Wireframe Sphere Visualization.

Volume Rendering¶

Example Name	Description	Image
SimpleRayCast	Volume rendering of a high potential iron protein.

Graphs¶

Example Name	Description	Image
SelectGraphVertices	Select Edges and vertices in a graph

SimpleOperations¶

Swing Integration¶

Example Name	Description	Image
JFrameRender	Render a scene in a JFrame using a vtkRenderWindowPanel
SwingHandleMouseEvent	Display in a JLabel the point the mouse is hovering over using a mouse listener

Widgets¶

Example Name	Description	Image
AngleWidget	AngleWidget Demonstration
AngleWidget2D	AngleWidget2D Demonstration
BalloonWidget	The balloon text describes each object when you hover it.
CaptionWidget	Widget for placing a caption (text plus leader)
DistanceWidget	Measures the distance between two points.
ImagePlaneWidget	3D widget for reslicing image data.
ImageTracerWidgetNonPlanar	3D widget for tracing on planar props.
LogoWidget	2D widget for placing and manipulating a logo
OrientationMarkerWidget	Display a polydata as an orientation icon.
PlaneWidget	A finite (bounded) plane that can be interactively placed in a scene.
SeedWidget	Places multiple seed points, where a user moves the cursor to and clicks it.
SplineWidget	SplineWidget Demonstration
TextWidget	Widget for placing text on overlay plane.