FacetAnalyser

ParaView plugin for automated facet detection and measurement of interplanar angles of tomographic objects

<img src="http://romangrothausmann.github.io/FacetAnalyser/demos/SVGs/8faced-rhombic-dodecahedron_twinned_simp%2Bdef_01_04c_l01.svg" width="400"> <img src="http://romangrothausmann.github.io/FacetAnalyser/demos/SVGs/8faced-rhombic-dodecahedron_twinned_010_deformed_wss_FA.svg" width="400">

See http://www.midasjournal.org/browse/publication/951 or http://hdl.handle.net/10380/3510 for more details.

An interactive 3D view of its demo-output can be seen here or here (needs WebGL).

Installation

Configure ParaView with cmake as follows:

BUILD_SHARED_LIBS ON

Compile ParaView with make and optionally install it. The following ITK compilation does not need ParaView to be installed.

Configure ITK with cmake as follows, set /paraview-build-dir/ to the build directory used for building ParaView:

cmake \
-DVTK_DIR=/paraview-build-dir/VTK/ \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/ITK-install-dir_with-pvVTK/ \
-DModule_ITKVtkGlue=ON \
-DModule_ITKReview=ON \
-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \

The two additionally enabled ITK modules are needed for the connection of VTK with ITK and for the watershed filters. It is essential, that VTK_DIR is set to the build directory containing VTK shipped with ParaView.

Then create a build dir and configure FacetAnalyser:

cmake \
-DITK_DIR=/ITK-install-dir_with-pvVTK/lib/cmake/ITK-*.*/ \
-DParaView_DIR=/paraview-build-dir/ \
-DBUILD_PLUGIN=ON \
-DBUILD_TESTING=ON \
-DBUILD_EXAMPLE=ON \