"VTK Users guide" - worth it?

[Sean Spicer]

Stephane,

For what it's worth, I've found the user's guide invaluable in extending
vtk.  However, if you don't plan to do this (mainly by creating new vtk
classes) then you could probably save the $60.

cheers

sean

On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Stephane M. wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm wondering about the VTK users guide.  I have
> already the Visualization book, this is maybe a good
> book about visualization but absolutely not a complete
> VTK users guide.
> 
> So...  the official VTK guide is 60$.  It is a little
> expensive for 300 pages.  And more, the shipping for
> Canada is 35$!!!  Amazon.com charges 6$ for the
> shipping of a book!
> 
> With thoses high prices, i'll defer my purchase until
> someone convince me that it is worth the trouble.
> 
> -Is this book a good reference?
> -If i want to "hack" a little in VTK (to use some
> openGL primitives unavailable via the VTK API), is
> there some information about that?
> 
> If not... is there any good web based documentation
> and examples?
> 
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