VTK/Examples/Cxx/Visualization/OrientedGlyphs

#include <vtkVersion.h>
#include <vtkSmartPointer.h>
#include <vtkPointData.h>
#include <vtkSphereSource.h>
#include <vtkArrowSource.h>
#include <vtkPolyData.h>
#include <vtkPoints.h>
#include <vtkGlyph3D.h>
#include <vtkCellArray.h>
#include <vtkPolyDataMapper.h>
#include <vtkActor.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindow.h>
#include <vtkRenderer.h>
#include <vtkRenderWindowInteractor.h>
#include <vtkXMLPolyDataWriter.h>
 
int main(int, char *[])
{
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkSphereSource> sphereSource =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkSphereSource>::New();
  sphereSource->Update();
 
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyData> input =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyData>::New();
  input->ShallowCopy(sphereSource->GetOutput());
 
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkArrowSource> arrowSource =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkArrowSource>::New();
 
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkGlyph3D> glyph3D =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkGlyph3D>::New();
  glyph3D->SetSourceConnection(arrowSource->GetOutputPort());
  glyph3D->SetVectorModeToUseNormal();
#if VTK_MAJOR_VERSION <= 5
  glyph3D->SetInput(input);
#else
  glyph3D->SetInputData(input);
#endif
  glyph3D->SetScaleFactor(.2);
  glyph3D->Update();
 
  // Visualize
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper> mapper =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkPolyDataMapper>::New();
  mapper->SetInputConnection(glyph3D->GetOutputPort());
 
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor> actor =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkActor>::New();
  actor->SetMapper(mapper);
 
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer> renderer =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderer>::New();
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow> renderWindow =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindow>::New();
  renderWindow->AddRenderer(renderer);
  vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor> renderWindowInteractor =
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkRenderWindowInteractor>::New();
  renderWindowInteractor->SetRenderWindow(renderWindow);
 
  renderer->AddActor(actor);
  renderer->SetBackground(.3, .6, .3); // Background color green
 
  renderWindow->Render();
  renderWindowInteractor->Start();
 
  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}