[vtk-developers] ANNOUNCEMENT : New the VTK User's Guides are finally ready!

[David E DeMarle]

Kitware is pleased to announce the release of the Eleventh Edition of the *VTK
User’s Guide*.* The VTK User's Guide* is a companion text to *The VTK
Textbook* <http://kitware.com/products/books/vtkbook.html>; while The* VTK
Textbook* stresses algorithmic and data structure details, the *VTK User's
Guide* stresses how to use the software.

The Eleventh Edition features a new chapter detailing VTK's information
visualization functionality, including the table, graph, and tree data
structures required to represent non-spatial data; enhanced details on 2D
and 3D widgets and other forms of user interaction required to create an
exploratory visualization application; a new chapter on geospatial
visualization for geographically organized data; additional details on time
dependent and composite data; and a discussion of advanced rendering
techniques, including depth peeling for transparency.

As always, the VTK User’s Guide includes:

·      A description of the structured and unstructured data types supported
by VTK.

·      Details on the pipeline architecture model.

·      An overview of the rendering engine used to display data.

·      Many examples showing the use of various scalar and vector
visualization and data processing algorithms.

·      Chapters dedicated to image processing and volume rendering.

·      Information on how to write your own algorithms in VTK, including
details on the VTK coding style.



The Eleventh Edition of the VTK User’s Guide may be purchased through
Kitware's secure online
store<http://kitware.stores.yahoo.net/vtkuserguide.html>or through
Amazon (ISBN-13: 978-1-930934-23-8). Please contact Kitware
directly at sales at kitware.com for rates on purchases of 10 or more books.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
28 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-371-3971 x109
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