VTK/Developer how to

Welcome to the VTK Wiki, home of the latest VTK documentation and resources on the web.

The Visualization ToolKit (VTK) is an open source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization used by thousands of researchers and developers around the world. VTK consists of a C++ class library, and several interpreted interface layers including Python, Tcl/Tk and Java. Professional support and products for VTK are provided by Kitware, Inc. VTK supports a wide variety of visualization algorithms including scalar, vector, tensor, texture, and volumetric methods; and advanced modeling techniques such as implicit modelling, polygon reduction, mesh smoothing, cutting, contouring, and Delaunay triangulation. In addition, dozens of imaging algorithms have been directly integrated to allow the user to mix 2D imaging / 3D graphics algorithms and data.

Start Here

Join

Sign up for the vtk mailing lists

Register on the Mantis bug tracker

Read

Browse the VTK Coding Standards

Skim the Developer's FAQ

Peruse a few of the External Tutorials

Learn

Watch some of Kitware's Webinars

Build some of the Wiki Examples

Read the Advanced Tutorials

Source Code How-to

Get the VTK Source

Setup for Git development

Create, Commit, and Share Change Sets

Configure and Build VTK   NEW

Check the Status

Ohloh project page

VTK Gerrit

View the Code

VTK Git Landing page

VTK Gitweb

Github Mirror

Resources

Contribute a Dashboard   NEW

Dashboards are an important tool we use to ensure quality.

Communications

Search the mailing list archives or use Advanced Google search

Data

VTK is tested and released with datasets for visualization.

CDash

View the VTK Quality Dashboards

Documentation

Build the VTK Doxygen documentation

Roadmap

Read about what's next in VTK.

Help

• Kitware offers Support Contracts and Expert Consulting
• Deprecated Frontpage