Fixed interface so the renderer uses Trackball interaction, extent and limits work.

Added a notebook, showing a simple example of using the vtkView

SimPEG/visulize/vtk/vtkTools.py

@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ class vtkTools(object):
 		renwin = vtk.vtkRenderWindow()
 		renwin.AddRenderer(ren)
 		iren = vtk.vtkRenderWindowInteractor()
+		iren.GetInteractorStyle().SetCurrentStyleToTrackballCamera()
 		iren.SetRenderWindow(renwin)
 
 		return iren, renwin

SimPEG/visulize/vtk/vtkView.py

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ class vtkView(object):
 		self.name = 'VTK figure of SimPEG model'
 		self.extent = [0,mesh.nCx-1,0,mesh.nCy-1,0,mesh.nCz-1]
 		self.limits = [0, 1e12]
-		self.viewProp = 0 # Int or name of the vector.
+		self.viewprop = {'cell':0} # Name of the tyep and Int order of the array or name of the vector.
 		self._mesh = mesh
 
 
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ class vtkView(object):
 			else:
 				raise(Exception,'{:s} is not allowed as a dictonary key. Can be \'cell\',\'face\',\'edge\'.'.format(propitem[0]))
 
-	def Show(self,imageType='cell'):
+	def Show(self):
 		"""
 		Open the VTK figure window and show the mesh.
 
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ class vtkView(object):
 		# Make renderwindow. Returns the interactor.
 		self._iren, self._renwin = vtkSP.makeRenderWindow(self._ren)
 
-
+		imageType = self.viewprop.keys()[0]
 		# Sort out the actor
 		if imageType == 'cell':
 			self._vtkobj, self._core = vtkSP.makeRectiVTKVOIThres(self._cell,self.extent,self.limits)
@@ -103,12 +103,12 @@ class vtkView(object):
 			raise Exception("{:s} is not a vailid imageType. Has to be 'cell':'face':'edge'".format(imageType))
 
 		# Set the active scalar.
-		if type(self.viewProp) == int:
-			actScalar = self._vtkobj.GetCellData().GetArrayName(self.viewProp)
-		elif type(self.viewProp) == str:
-			actScalar = self.viewProp
+		if type(self.viewprop.values()[0]) == int:
+			actScalar = self._vtkobj.GetCellData().GetArrayName(self.viewprop.values()[0])
+		elif type(self.viewprop.values()[0]) == str:
+			actScalar = self.viewprop.values()[0]
 		else :
-			raise Exception('The vtkView.viewProp has the wrong format. Has to be interger or a string.')
+			raise Exception('The vtkView.viewprop.values()[0] has the wrong format. Has to be interger or a string.')
 		self._vtkobj.GetCellData().SetActiveScalars(actScalar)
 		# Set up the plane, clipper and the user interaction.
 		global intPlane, intActor

notebooks/3DRenderingWithvtkTools.ipynb

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     {
      "cell_type": "code",
      "collapsed": false,
-     "input": "#Make a mesh and model\nx0 = np.zeros(3)\nh1 = np.ones(20)*5\nh2 = np.ones(10)*10\nh3 = np.ones(5)*20\n\nmesh = simpeg.mesh.TensorMesh([h1,h2,h3],x0)\n",
+     "input": "#Make a mesh and model\nx0 = np.zeros(3)\nh1 = np.ones(20)*50\nh2 = np.ones(10)*100\nh3 = np.ones(5)*200\n\nmesh = simpeg.mesh.TensorMesh([h1,h2,h3],x0)\n",
      "language": "python",
      "metadata": {},
      "outputs": [],
@@ -43,14 +43,28 @@
      "outputs": [],
      "prompt_number": 4
     },
+    {
+     "cell_type": "code",
+     "collapsed": false,
+     "input": "mesh.nCxx",
+     "language": "python",
+     "metadata": {},
+     "outputs": [
+      {
+       "output_type": "pyout",
+       "prompt_number": 7,
+       "text": "20"
+      }
+     ],
+     "prompt_number": 7
+    },
     {
      "cell_type": "code",
      "collapsed": false,
      "input": "",
      "language": "python",
      "metadata": {},
-     "outputs": [],
-     "prompt_number": 4
+     "outputs": []
     }
    ],
    "metadata": {}