[vtkusers] [DEMO] amira and Teaching Visualization with VTK

[Rene Tschirley]

Dave Reed
>I've seen programs like AVS [...]
>I would probably
>want to talk to someone who has used these before going too far.

I used AVS/Express on SGI's Indys for about one year. One year I learned
to _hate_ AVS/Express. The GUI was nice to use for rapid-prototyping, but
not for seriously engineering. It crashed at least twice a day, making it
almost impossible to find the bug. The event control was
uncontrollable. So many times I was not able to find out which object
triggered which one and which malfunctioning connection was responsible
for the crash.

There was an interface to implement native C/C++ Code, but it was so
buggy that I would have been very happy if my boss wasn't enforcing me to
use AVS/Express but something other. Anything. At least X11. That's why I
_love_ VTK. No GUI -- no pain!

It was the hardest time in my career... ;-)


Bye,
	René

-- 
Dipl.-Inform. René Tschirley,              http://cg.cs.tu-berlin.de/~pooh
TU Berlin, Computer Graphics and Computer Assisted Medicine research group