# tri-plane 2D view of a 3D volume

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/tri-plane-2d-view-of-a-3d-volume/16287
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [February 12, 2026, 11:09am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/tri-plane-2d-view-of-a-3d-volume/16287 "2026-02-12T11:09:06Z")
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### Author: ![Limz90](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@Limz90](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Limz90)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2026, 11:09am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/tri-plane-2d-view-of-a-3d-volume/16287/1 "2026-02-12T11:09:06Z")

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Hi,

I am looking for the way (VTK classes to use for 2D view) of doing this (image below), using 4 different renderer windows.

Thanks,

 ![image](https://discourse.vtk.org/uploads/default/original/2X/0/08dad7056e93bed4f554e3b6a5f56d02bee384f6.jpeg)

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### Author: ![sankhesh](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/sankhesh/32/73_2.png) [@sankhesh](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/sankhesh)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2026, 3:25pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/tri-plane-2d-view-of-a-3d-volume/16287/2 "2026-02-12T15:25:15Z")

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Take a look at the FourPaneViewer example here: [VTK/Examples/GUI/Qt/FourPaneViewer/QtVTKRenderWindows.cxx at master · Kitware/VTK · GitHub](https://github.com/Kitware/VTK/blob/master/Examples/GUI/Qt/FourPaneViewer/QtVTKRenderWindows.cxx)

It uses Qt for the UI but the core is what you are hoping to do i.e. 4 different render windows → three 2D slices and one 3D orthogonal planes view.

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### Author: ![Limz90](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@Limz90](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Limz90)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2026, 7:44am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/tri-plane-2d-view-of-a-3d-volume/16287/3 "2026-02-13T07:44:40Z")

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Thank you @sankhesh , yes I am using vtkImagePlaneWidget for my project and I was thinking there may be best way to do. Okay, I will have a look.

Thanks!