[vtkusers] Re: "VTK Users guide" - worth it?

[Morten H Pedersen]

Yes,

I found both the VTK Users Guide and the VTK - an object oriented approach to 3D graphics necessary to get a grip of VTK. The users guide uses mostly TCL and the VTK book uses C++ (like I do). The users guide (almost) is up to date with regards to the class hierarchy (for instance the object factory model is not implemented in the OOP book - I think), whereas the OOP book makes a far better introduction to the principles of 3D graphics AND VTK's way of handling that.

So my advice - buy both. If you look at what you get for free (VTK) it is definitely worth spending some money on the documentation.

Sincerely,

Morten H Pedersen, M.D.

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Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 3:15 PM
Subject: "VTK Users guide" - worth it?


> 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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