[vtkusers] J. Winston's errata for the textbook (2nd ed'n) & user's guide (ISBN 1-930934-06-8)

Jeremy Winston winston at cat.rpi.edu
Tue Dec 17 07:53:24 EST 2002


Folks,
    Hope this is useful to someone.

-Jeremy

----- Errata for the 2nd edition of the VTK textbook: -----

Pg.  Line     Description
---  -------  ------------------------------------------------------------
 29  Fig 2-4  "b1" arrow head from "Displaying Alarm" to "Displaying Date"
                 should be removed.
              "Toggle Alarm" shouldn't be a state, but only an edge label
                 for "Display Alarm"'s "b3" transition.
              "b1" arrow from "Displaying Alarm" to "Changing Hours"
                 should be reversed.
              "b2" arrow from "Changing Hours" to "Display Alarming" should
                 point to "Changing Seconds".
              "b1" arrow from "Displaying Time" to "Changing Hours"
                 should be reversed.
              "b2" arrow from "Changing Hours" to "Display Time" should
                 point to "Changing Seconds".

109    -1     4-14 --> 4-15

110    14     4-14 --> 4-16

129   -20     "Structured points" --> "Structured grids"

326     9     then --> than

343    19     "coordinate)" --> ") coordinate"

345   -19     Indent the line.

467    -5     "\" shouldn't be there.

480    -5     "VRRML" --> "VRML"

564    13     SetOutput --> SetPoints

566     5     openGL --> OpenGL
       -6     .h should be deleted

609    13     "you may want to place *them* into the ..."

622     9     "n-independent" --> "n independent"


----- Errata for the VTK User's Guide (ISBN 1-930934-06-8): -----

Page#    Line#   Description
-------  ------  ----------------------------------------------------
     21     -17  you --> your
22, 241          Figure 3.2 is identical to Figure 11.2.
     27     -10  volumes --> a volume
     52       6  page 46 --> page 47
     53      -4  looking --> looking at
     62       2  hierarchal --> hierarchical
     66      13  Three --> Two
     67      11  is one direct subclass --> are two direct subclasses
            -17  third --> second
                 vtkAbstractPicker --> vtkAbstractPropPicker
     83  9 & 10  "Visualization...page 83" -->
                    "Visualizing Image & Volume Data" on page 121."
             11  "to keep" should be stricken
    127     -11  the a --> the
    156       6  increases --> is
              7  sample --> step
              8  i.e. --> e.g.
                 "difference in" should be stricken
             10  faster --> longer
             -9  below --> in Figure 6-20
    157       6  less --> fewer
             12  always be --> be always (Nitpick re the split infinitive)
    158      -5  100 --> 1000



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