Text output in VTK (2D and 3D)

*Purpose: VTK supports both 2D and 3D text rendering. For 2D, it usually uses vtkTextActor. We can control its font, shadow and display position (in 2D screen coordinates). For 3D, many possible options can be used. One favorable option is to use vtkVectorText with vtkLinearExtrusionFilter. It gives high-quality 3D text rendering.

(Please first follow the VTK installation guide to build VTK from source)




There major VTK classes are used in this demo: vtkTextActor, vtkVectorText, vtkLinearExtrusionFilter.