GS The following example shows how to use VTK (Visualization ToolKit) and Tcl/Tk to display and explore a superellipsoid parametric surfaces (vtkParametricSuperToroid) with varying parameters :
N1 : "squareness" parameter along z axis N2 : "squareness" parameter along x-y plane X Y Z : scaling factor along the x y z-axis
You can test it easily on Windows without compiling VTK libraries thanks to VTKit (a tclkit extended with VTK library based on VTK5.5 and Tcl/Tk 8.5.7). [L1 ]
You can download VTKit5.5 here [L2 ]
# superellipsoid-vtk.tcl # Author: Gerard Sookahet # Date: 13 April 2019 # Version: 0.1 # Description: Superellipsoid parametric surface visualization with VTK and Tcl/Tk with varying # parameters in a GUI # load the VTK Tcl package and load the vtkinteraction package that contains # default bindings for handling mouse and keyboard events for a render widget # Default keyboard events are : # e / q / ESC : exit # s : surface rendering # w : wireframe rendering # r : reset camera package require vtk package require vtkinteraction # Flat UI option add *Button.relief flat option add *Button.foreground white option add *Button.background blue option add *Button.width 13 option add *Label.foreground blue option add *Label.background orange option add *Label.width 13 option add *Entry.relief flat option add *Entry.background lightblue option add *Entry.width 2 option add *Text.foreground lightgreen option add *Text.background black option add *Scale.relief flat option add *Scale.background blue option add *Scale.foreground white option add *Scale.highlightBackground black global color global renWin set color 1 set w .sellips catch {destroy $w} toplevel $w $w config -bg black wm title $w "Superellipsoid Surface Visualization" wm protocol $w WM_DELETE_WINDOW ::vtk::cb_exit # Create render window inside a Tk widget and bind the mouse events ::vtk::bind_tk_render_widget [vtkTkRenderWidget $w.rw -width 600 -height 600] # # Get the render window associated with the widget set renWin [$w.rw GetRenderWindow] vtkRenderer ren $renWin AddRenderer ren # Start VTK pipeline # Source -> Mapper -> Actor -> Renderer # Create an instance of a parametric object (vtkParametricSuperEllipsoid) # and Tessellate the parametric function vtkParametricSuperEllipsoid p vtkParametricFunctionSource obj obj SetParametricFunction p # Create an instance of vtkPolyDataMapper to map the polygonal data # into graphics primitives and connect the output of the obj source # to the input of this mapper vtkPolyDataMapper objMapper objMapper SetInputConnection [obj GetOutputPort] # Create an actor to represent the obj. The actor coordinates rendering of # the graphics primitives for a mapper. We set this actor's mapper to be # the mapper which we created above. vtkLODActor actor actor SetMapper objMapper # Assign a blue color to our actor [actor GetProperty] SetColor 0 0 1 # Create the Renderer and add actors to it (ren AddViewProp actor also works) # 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. ren AddActor actor # Set the background color and render ren SetBackground 0 0 0 ren Render # prevent the tk window from showing up then start the event loop wm withdraw . # Set parameters with a scale widget # N1 : "squareness" parameter along z axis # N2 : "squareness" parameter along x-y plane # X Y Z : scaling factor along the x y z-axis set f0 [frame $w.f0 -bg black] set f1 [frame $f0.f1 -bg black] set f2 [frame $f0.f2 -bg black] pack $f1 -fill x pack $f2 -fill x set sn1 [scale $f1.sn1 \ -from 0 -to 10 -res .1 \ -orient horizontal \ -label "N1" \ -command SuperellipsoidSetN1] set sn2 [scale $f1.sn2 \ -from 0 -to 10 -res .1 \ -orient horizontal \ -label "N2" \ -command SuperellipsoidSetN2] set sx [scale $f1.sx \ -from 0 -to 10 -res .1 \ -orient horizontal \ -label "X" \ -command SuperellipsoidSetX] set sy [scale $f1.sy \ -from 0 -to 10 -res .1 \ -orient horizontal \ -label "Y" \ -command SuperellipsoidSetY] set sz [scale $f1.sz \ -from 0 -to 10 -res .1 \ -orient horizontal \ -label "Z" \ -command SuperellipsoidSetZ] $sn1 set [p GetN1] $sn2 set [p GetN2] $sx set [p GetXRadius] $sy set [p GetYRadius] $sz set [p GetZRadius] proc SuperellipsoidSetN1 {res} { global renWin p SetN1 $res $renWin Render } proc SuperellipsoidSetN2 {res} { global renWin p SetN2 $res $renWin Render } proc SuperellipsoidSetX {res} { global renWin p SetXRadius $res $renWin Render } proc SuperellipsoidSetY {res} { global renWin p SetYRadius $res $renWin Render } proc SuperellipsoidSetZ {res} { global renWin p SetZRadius $res $renWin Render } button $f2.clr -text "Change Color" -command {ChangeColor} button $f2.exit -text Quit -command {exit} button $f2.about -text About -command {About} pack {*}[winfo children $f1] pack {*}[winfo children $f2] -pady 3 -fill x pack $w.rw $f0 -side left # Change obj color between red green blue proc ChangeColor {} { global color global renWin switch $color { 0 { set rgb "0 0 1" set color 1 } 1 { set rgb "0 1 0" set color 2 } 2 { set rgb "1 0 0" set color 0 } } for {set i 1} {$i <= 100} {incr i 5} { after 30 set r [lindex $rgb 0] set g [lindex $rgb 1] set b [lindex $rgb 2] set i100 [expr {$i/100.0}] [actor GetProperty] SetColor [expr {$i100*$r}] [expr {$i100*$g}] [expr {$i100*$b}] $renWin Render } } proc About {} { set w .about catch {destroy $w} toplevel $w .about configure -bg black wm title $w "About Superellipsoid" set txt "VTK Superellipsoid Surface Visualization \n April 2019 \n Gerard Sookahet" message $w.msg -justify left -aspect 250 -relief flat -bg black -fg lightblue -text $txt button $w.bquit -text " OK " -command {destroy .about} pack $w.msg $w.bquit }
See aslo Supertoroid visualization with VTK and Tcl-Tk