[vtkusers] GUI for VTK (was [DEMO] amira)

[David E. Jones]

Kent Eschenberg wrote:

> Some random thoughts on this topic ...
>
> (1) The visualization package formerly marketed by IBM, Data
> Explorer, is now in the public domain. The commercial
> version had a GUI and I believe it worked under NT and UNIX.
> Has someone worked with the public domain version? Could
> some pieces be used to build a VTK GUI?
>
> (2) What should be the scope of this VTK GUI project? One
> goal would be a GUI that would update itself automatically
> by scanning the VTK source code, and that would work on all
> OS used by VTKers. This is a lot of work. Could it be done
> in phases?
>
> (3) How portable? Building a GUI that works under, say, NT
> and UNIX, using non-commercial software could be tough. Is
> this important? Do any of the proposed GUI packages
> accomplish this? A solution (although not a great one) is to
> have a seperate GUI for each flavor of OS with a way to read
> and write the "network" to a portable file.
>
> Kent Eschenberg  kee at athena.wes.hpc.mil
> Technical Lead for Scientific Visualization
> ERDC MSRC Supercomputer Center, Vicksburg, MS

Why pursue a Visual Programming interface ?  Is it better than a script language ?I think it's
not and it's also less flexible.   However, a point and click GUI would
be useful.  What about something like the SciAn GUI ?

Dave

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David E Jones
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