[Paraview] need book to understand vtk-file formats?

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Torsten Lange <tlange at gwdg.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I asked a student to get familiar with vtk formats to later write scripts to
> extract geometry and scalar/property data from a simulation tool to be
> visualized in PARAVIEW.
>
> There are two books offered related to vtk (Textbook and User's Guide). Would
> one of those be helpful for the student? Or are the online sources sufficient?
> Or maybe other books?
>

I believe that neither of these explain the file formats.

John