cone5.tcl

a very goog book

#
# This example introduces the concepts of interaction into the
# Tcl environment. First, a different interaction style (than
# the default) is defined. Second, because Tcl is an interpretive
# language, the VTK Tcl interaction GUI is set up.
# 
#
#
# First we include the VTK Tcl packages which will make available 
# all of the VTK commands to Tcl. Note that package vtkinteraction
# is required; thios package defines the Tcl/Tk GUI widget .vtkInteract
# that is referred to later.
#
package require vtk
package require vtkinteraction

# 
# Next we create an instance of vtkConeSource and set some of its
# properties. The instance of vtkConeSource "cone" is part of a visualization
# pipeline (it is a source process object); it produces data (output type is
# vtkPolyData) which other filters may process.
#
vtkConeSource cone
cone SetHeight 3.0
cone SetRadius 1.0
cone SetResolution 10

# 
# In this example we terminate the pipeline with a mapper process object.
# (Intermediate filters such as vtkShrinkPolyData could be inserted in
# between the source and the mapper.)  We create an instance of
# vtkPolyDataMapper to map the polygonal data into graphics primitives. We
# connect the output of the cone souece to the input of this mapper.
#
vtkPolyDataMapper coneMapper
coneMapper SetInput [cone GetOutput]

# 
# Create an actor to represent the cone. The actor orchestrates rendering of
# the mapper's graphics primitives. An actor also refers to properties via a
# vtkProperty instance, and includes an internal transformation matrix. We
# set this actor's mapper to be coneMapper which we created above.
#
vtkActor coneActor
coneActor SetMapper coneMapper

#
# Create the Renderer and assign actors to it. A renderer is like a
# viewport. It is part or all of a window on the screen and it is responsible
# for drawing the actors it has.  We also set the background color here.
#
vtkRenderer ren1 
ren1 AddActor coneActor
ren1 SetBackground 0.1 0.2 0.4

#
# Finally we create the render window which will show up on the screen
# We put our renderer into the render window using AddRenderer. We also
# set the size to be 300 pixels by 300.
#
vtkRenderWindow renWin
renWin AddRenderer ren1
renWin SetSize 300 300

# 
# The vtkRenderWindowInteractor class watches for events (e.g., keypress,
# mouse) in the vtkRenderWindow. These events are translated into
# event invocations that VTK understands (see VTK/Common/vtkCommand.h
# for all events that VTK processes). Then observers of these VTK
# events can process them as appropriate.
vtkRenderWindowInteractor iren
iren SetRenderWindow renWin

#
# By default the vtkRenderWindowInteractor instantiates an instance
# of vtkInteractorStyle. vtkInteractorStyle translates a set of events
# it observes into operations on the camera, actors, and/or properties
# in the vtkRenderWindow associated with the vtkRenderWinodwInteractor. 
# Here we specify a particular interactor style.
vtkInteractorStyleTrackballCamera style
iren SetInteractorStyle style

#
# Unlike the previous scripts where we performed some operations and then
# exited, here we leave an event loop running. The user can use the mouse
# and keyboard to perform the operations on the scene according to the
# current interaction style.
#

#
# Another feature of Tcl/Tk is that in VTK a simple GUI for typing in
# interpreted Tcl commands is provided. The so-called vtkInteractor appears
# when the user types the "u" (for user) keypress. The "u" keypress is
# translated into a UserEvent by the vtkRenderWindowInteractor. We observe
# this event and invoke a commands to deiconify the vtkInteractor. (The
# vtkInteractor is defined in the vtkinteraction package reference at the
# beginning of this script.)
# 
#
iren AddObserver UserEvent {wm deiconify .vtkInteract}

#
# Initialize the event loop. The actual interaction starts after 
# wm withdraw . with the Tk event loop. Once the render window appears, 
# mouse in the window to move the camera. Note that keypress-e exits this
# example. (Look in vtkInteractorStyle.h for a summary of events, or
# the appropriate Doxygen documentation.)
#
iren Initialize

#
# Since we are in the Tcl/Tk environment, we prevent the empty "."
# window from appearing with the Tk "withdraw" command.
#
wm withdraw .