[Insight-developers] The Source Newsletter : (October 2009)

[Luis Ibanez]

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In this issue:
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Thomas Otahal, of Sandia National Labs, discusses the integration of
MatLab and GnuR with Kitware’s Visualization Toolkit.

Pat Marion introduces a new extension to the ParaView Python interface,
called Python trace which generates human readable Python scripts
that mimic user actions in the GUI.

Andrew Maclean, from the Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR),
discusses ACFR’s use of Kitware’s open-source toolkits in order to
manage a development environment that is cross-platform, supports
code reuse, and is responsive to change.

Utkarsh Ayachit provides a brief tutorial on adding representation
plugins in ParaView.

Andrew Maclean, from ACFR, discusses the use of ParaView in
a mining research environment.

and

David Cole provides a tutorial on building external projects
with CMake 2.8.


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