PerlinNoise

VTKExamples/Cxx/Filtering/PerlinNoise

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Code

PerlinNoise.cxx

#include <vtkSmartPointer.h>

#include <vtkPolyDataMapper.h>
#include <vtkActor.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindow.h>
#include <vtkRenderer.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h>
#include <vtkSampleFunction.h>
#include <vtkContourFilter.h>
#include <vtkProperty.h>
#include <vtkCamera.h>

#include <vtkPerlinNoise.h>

int main(int, char *[])
{
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkPerlinNoise> perlinNoise =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkPerlinNoise>::New();
  perlinNoise->SetFrequency(2, 1.25, 1.5);
  perlinNoise->SetPhase(0, 0, 0);

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkSampleFunction> sample =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkSampleFunction>::New();
  sample->SetImplicitFunction(perlinNoise);
  sample->SetSampleDimensions(65, 65, 20);
  sample->ComputeNormalsOff();

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkContourFilter> surface =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkContourFilter>::New();
  surface->SetInputConnection(sample->GetOutputPort());
  surface->SetValue(0, 0.0);

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper> mapper =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper>::New();
  mapper->SetInputConnection(surface->GetOutputPort());
  mapper->ScalarVisibilityOff();

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor> actor =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor>::New();
  actor->SetMapper(mapper);
  actor->GetProperty()->SetColor(0.2, 0.4, 0.6);

  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer> renderer =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer>::New();
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow> renderWindow =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow>::New();
  renderWindow->AddRenderer(renderer);
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor> interactor =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor>::New();
  interactor->SetRenderWindow(renderWindow);

  // Add the actors to the renderer, set the background and size

  renderer->AddActor(actor);
  renderer->SetBackground(1, 1, 1);
  renderWindow->SetSize(300, 300);
  renderer->ResetCamera();
  renderWindow->Render();
  interactor->Start();

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.3 FATAL_ERROR)

project(PerlinNoise)

find_package(VTK COMPONENTS 
  vtkCommonCore
  vtkCommonDataModel
  vtkFiltersCore
  vtkImagingHybrid
  vtkInteractionStyle
  vtkRenderingCore
  vtkRenderingFreeType
  vtkRenderingOpenGL2 QUIET)
if (NOT VTK_FOUND)
  message("Skipping PerlinNoise: ${VTK_NOT_FOUND_MESSAGE}")
  return ()
endif()
message (STATUS "VTK_VERSION: ${VTK_VERSION}")
if (VTK_VERSION VERSION_LESS "8.90.0")
  # old system
  include(${VTK_USE_FILE})
  add_executable(PerlinNoise MACOSX_BUNDLE PerlinNoise.cxx )
  target_link_libraries(PerlinNoise PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES})
else ()
  # include all components
  add_executable(PerlinNoise MACOSX_BUNDLE PerlinNoise.cxx )
  target_link_libraries(PerlinNoise PRIVATE ${VTK_LIBRARIES})
  # vtk_module_autoinit is needed
  vtk_module_autoinit(
    TARGETS PerlinNoise
    MODULES ${VTK_LIBRARIES}
    )
endif ()

Download and Build PerlinNoise

Click here to download PerlinNoise and its CMakeLists.txt file. Once the tarball PerlinNoise.tar has been downloaded and extracted,

cd PerlinNoise/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:

./PerlinNoise

WINDOWS USERS

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