[vtkusers] Patented i.e. Marching cubes in Win32/Java

Bill Lorensen wlorens1 at nycap.rr.com
Sun Apr 22 12:26:23 EDT 2001


You have to build from the source tree to get the patented classes. Also you must restrict its use to non-commercial. Not much we can do about that til around 2003 or so when the MC patent expires,

Bill

At 11:48 AM 4/20/01 -0400, James L. Preston wrote:

>I am using vtkJava on a WIndows 2000 platform, and of course, I am very
>excited about it.
>I want to find some isosurfaces in a data cube, and do other volume
>rendering sorts of things.
>It appears that the libVtkPatented is not in the windows dll or
>vtkJava.dll distribution.
>Before I try and install the source, I was hoping to find out if this
>stuff is in the win32 source
>package.  There are other packages out there with isosurface extraction,
>I believe. Does anyone know
>if there are plans to remove the patent restrictions on the vtk libs.
>
>thanks,
>jlp
>
>
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