[vtkusers] Looking for Tutorial on VTK and Java, and VTK in g eneral

Wed May 1 10:49:18 EDT 2002

I think vtk could meet all your needs. I think it is a very good tool for
that, but  I am not sure vtk-java is good.

I would much rather work with vtk c++ or vtk tcl tk. The java wrapping is
not bad but there is NO documentation 

about it.  It is lot easier to get help for tcl/tk or C++ than for vtk-java 

I am personally using java user interface with my vtk c++ code as a native
interface. I am not using vtk-java wrapping.

But I have experience on this. I would like to know if any one else has a
better opinion on this.

Regards

Gowri

-----Original Message-----
From: Kathy Walker [mailto:kwalker at pegasustec.com] 
Sent: 01 May 2002 14:31
To: vtkusers at public.kitware.com
Subject: [vtkusers] Looking for Tutorial on VTK and Java, and VTK in general

Hi All,

I am trying to evaluate if VTK meets our needs for data visualization.
Preferably, our application will have a Swing interface, and we want to
display, trim, and resample data from 2D plots, and display interpolations
of data in 3D plots, based on sparse data sets. I am having a devil of a
time finding any documentation on the internet. I see big lists of
functions, but nothing grouping the functions in terms of what they do, and
I can't find any real tutorials anywhere. 

Do I have to buy the book, "The Visualization Toolkit: An Object-Oriented
Approach To 3D Graphics" and does this provide sufficient documentation such
that I can build a prototype meeting the above requirements? In general, is
VTK the tool that I should be looking at for these requirements? Last, does
any list member here have some favorite links that can get me started? 

Kathy(tm)

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