[Fwd: Re: [vtkusers] Looking for Tutorial on VTK and Java, and VTK in general]

[bryan cole]

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> From: bryan cole <bryan.cole at teraview.co.uk>
> To: Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu at aero.iitm.ernet.in>
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Looking for Tutorial on VTK and Java, and VTK in general
> Date: 01 May 2002 18:41:56 +0100
> 
> As I new VTK user, I used the User Guide to get going. The textbook
> "VTK:an object oriented approach to 3D graphics" is also worth having
> from the point of view of understanding the algorithms and internal
> organisation of VTK. I also recommend Python for development! (I've no
> experience of Java). For visualisation, I also looked at IBM's OpenDX,
> but found it's graphical interface horrible. VTK is much easier to use
> in my opinion, and similarly powerful.
> 
> Bryan
> 
> On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 16:31, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > >>>>> "KW" == Kathy Walker <kwalker at pegasustec.com> writes:
> > 
> >     KW> Hi All, I am trying to evaluate if VTK meets our needs for
> >     KW> data visualization.  Preferably, our application will have a
> >     KW> Swing interface, and we want to display, trim, and resample
> >     KW> data from 2D plots, and display interpolations of data in 3D
> >     KW> plots, based on sparse data sets. I am having a devil of a
> > 
> > I am not sure about the VTK-Java wrappers but I think VTK will do just
> > fine for what you want to do.  IMHO, you should switch to Python.  I'm
> > biased ofcourse. ;)
> > 
> >     KW> time finding any documentation on the internet. I see big
> >     KW> lists of functions, but nothing grouping the functions in
> >     KW> terms of what they do, and I can't find any real tutorials
> >     KW> anywhere.
> > 
> > Ah, yes, that is a problem there is no free comprehensive
> > documentation.  You can find a few introductory papers here:
> > 
> >       http://www.barre.nom.fr/vtk/links-doc.html
> > 
> > There is also a nice tutorial but there is no way that tutorial will
> > cover the 650 odd classes that VTK has.  For that you will simply have
> > to read the books and learn with experience.
> > 
> >     KW> Do I have to buy the book, "The Visualization Toolkit: An
> >     KW> Object-Oriented Approach To 3D Graphics" and does this provide
> >     KW> sufficient documentation such that I can build a prototype
> >     KW> meeting the above requirements? In general, is VTK the tool
> > 
> > Buy both the VTK book and the users guide.  I think they should both
> > be very useful.  The VTK book is good even if you are not going to use
> > VTK. 
> > 
> >     KW> that I should be looking at for these requirements? Last, does
> >     KW> any list member here have some favorite links that can get me
> >     KW> started?
> > 
> > There isn't much documentation here but its a very useful resource
> > nonetheless
> > 
> >  http://public.kitware.com/VTK/
> > 
> > Sebastien's pages are very useful too.
> > 
> >  http://www.barre.nom.fr/vtk/links.html
> > 
> > Ofcourse you should also take a good look at:
> > 
> >  http://www.python.org
> > 
> > :)
> > 
> > cheers,
> > prabhu
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> Bryan Cole
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Bryan Cole
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