Visualization Toolkit (VTK) mex interface

Files describing how to interface MATLAB with VTK via mex

Description

The code in this submission describes how to download and install the Visualization Toolkit (VTK, www.vtk.org) and create a MATLAB mex file to interface with it.

An example C++ mex file and code to build and run the mex file are included.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.6 (R2008a)
• Other requirements: The example uses VTK5.0, Visual Studio.Net 2003 and cmake4.0 However the generalize to other releases of MATLAB and these products.

[Abhishek Banerjee]

its good but i tested on my Fedora 9 with gcc-4.3 . But when i closed the openGL window my matlab also shutting down ..i dont know why ..

[Fredrik Viksten]

The openGL shutting down matlab is a well-known ... limitation(?) of the classic openGL implementation. There is an old lngjmp ugly-hackish-fix to get around it but a much better way is to use freeglut which already can handle this.

[Martijn Steenwijk]

Got it installed on my Opensuse 11.1 with Matlab 2007b. There was one ' bug' due to GLIBCXX inconsistencies, I'd to remove the files libstdc++.so.6 and libgcc_s.so.1 from the matlab/sys/os/glnxa64 directory (64 bit pc).

For the "closing" bug, a work-around exists: type 'q' in the VTK window, and the VTK-window will close as it should do while keeping Matlab alive.

[Mark T]

Thanks Phil. Good instructions - worked out fine (slight deviation in selecting build options in cmake...and VC2008 took about 30 minutes to compile on a 2.0GHz Pentium).
However, when running 'vtkPolyDataRenderer.mexw32' with 'runDemoVTKmexfile.m' I get *random crashes upon calling*.
Could there be a memory leak floating around?