Questions about the Point Cloud Data representation.

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Hi all!

I have some questions about Point Cloud Data.

Question 1)
The colors are represented differently depending on zoom(In my code).
(zoom in)

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(zoom out)
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But ParaView shows the same color regardless of zoom.
(The below image is shown applied the Jet colormap.)
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How to show the same color regardless of zoom?

Question 2)
When I dragging the point cloud data, the surface is shiny.
But ParaView, the surface is not shiny.

How to disable the shiny option on the code?

Could you please advise me? :cry:

Thank you :slight_smile:

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Could you attach a data file of this data here for us to try out?

Looks like aliasing to me, but I’d be happy to give it a go with your data

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Hi Bane Sullivan.

I attached my PLY file.

Please help me :cry:

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Question 1

I can’t reproduce this issue - Using PyVista, the colors are the same regardless of zoom level - I have no idea why your code would do this.

import pyvista as pv
import numpy as np
# Re cast PolyData because file was not properly saved
bad = pv.read('myPLY.ply')
mesh = pv.PolyData(bad.points)
# Plot it
scalars = bad['RGB']
mesh.plot(scalars=scalars)

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Question 2

This likely has to do with the lighting set on your actor’s property: actor.GetProperty().LightingOn(). also, are you filtering this point cloud to a surface via a Delaunay filter or anything? Or are you keeping it a Points Representation?

I can’t say much more without seeing screenshots/your code.

Additionally

Another point - you have RGB values for this mesh - perhaps turn off the scalar mapping and just use the RGB values for coloring your mesh. This is streamlined in PyVista as:

mesh.plot(scalars=scalars, rgb=True)

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Hi Bane!

Thank you for your reply :slight_smile:

My environment is as below:
IDE: Visual Studio 2015 MFC
VTK: ver 8.9

And my test code is:

vtkSmartPointer<vtkPLYReader> pPLYReader =
	vtkSmartPointer<vtkPLYReader>::New();
pPLYReader->SetFileName(path);
pPLYReader->Update();	

int numPts = pPLYReader->GetOutput()->GetPoints()->GetNumberOfPoints();

double bounds[6];
pPLYReader->GetOutput()->GetBounds(bounds);

// Find min and max z
double minz = bounds[4];
double maxz = bounds[5];

vtkSmartPointer<vtkLookupTable> lut =
	vtkSmartPointer<vtkLookupTable>::New();
lut->SetTableRange(minz, maxz);
//lut->SetHueRange(0.0, 0.667);
lut->SetHueRange(1.0, 0.0);
lut->SetNumberOfColors(numPts);
lut->SetScaleToLinear();
lut->SetAlphaRange(0.0, 0.0);
lut->Build();

vtkSmartPointer<vtkUnsignedCharArray> colors =
	vtkSmartPointer<vtkUnsignedCharArray>::New();
colors->SetNumberOfComponents(3);
colors->SetName("Colors");
for (int i = 0; i < numPts; i++)
{
	double p[3];
	pPLYReader->GetOutput()->GetPoint(i, p);

	double dcolor[3];
	lut->GetColor(p[2], dcolor);
	unsigned char color[3];
	for (unsigned int j = 0; j < 3; j++)
	{
		color[j] = static_cast<unsigned char>(255.0 * dcolor[j]);
	}

	colors->InsertNextTypedTuple(color);
}

vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyData> pPolyData = pPLYReader->GetOutput();
pPolyData->GetPointData()->SetScalars(colors);

vtkSmartPointer<vtkPointGaussianMapper> mapper =
	vtkSmartPointer<vtkPointGaussianMapper>::New();
mapper->SetInputConnection(pPLYReader->GetOutputPort());
mapper->SetScaleFactor(0);

vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor> actor =
	vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor>::New();
actor->SetMapper(mapper);
actor->GetProperty()->SetOpacity(1.0);

vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer> renderer =
	vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer>::New();
renderer->AddActor(actor);
renderer->SetBackground(.1, .2, .3);
renderer->ResetCamera();

m_vtkRenderWindow->AddRenderer(renderer);
m_vtkRenderWindow->Render();

renderer->ResetCamera();
m_vtkRenderWindow->Render();

So… If you have any spare time, could you please check my code?
Actually, I don’t know that my code is correctly used.

Thank you :slight_smile:

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Hi all.

I found to disable the shiny option.

If the ‘SetEmissive’ function is set to ‘false’, the shiny effect disappears.

...
vtkNew<vtkPointGaussianMapper> mapper;
mapper->SetEmissive(false);
...
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