[vtk-developers] Source is out - get it while it's hot

[David E DeMarle]

Hello vtk world.

The latest edition of the Kitware Source is now available online. The
Kitware Software Developer’s Quarterly Newsletter contains articles
related to the development of Kitware projects in addition to a myriad
of software updates, news and other content relevant to the open
source community.

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In this issue, 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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cheers,
Dave DeMarle
Kitware Inc.