[vtkusers] Viewing an arbitrary .vtk

[tom fogal]

Have you taken a look at mayavi?

http://mayavi.sourceforge.net/

Sounds like exactly what you're looking for to me. Even better, the
author reads this list so you can pester him with questions :P

-tom

 <411B65C1.6050907 at mansf.ox.ac.uk>Jamie Vicary writes:
>Dear all,
>
>   I have a program which will need to create diverse kinds of output, 
>and I would like to exploit the .vtk file format's flexibility to 
>represent this data. The output will consist of two- or 
>three-dimensional volumes, either structured or unstructured, with 
>possibly boolean, integer or floating point values at each coordinate.
>
>   I am having trouble finding a lightweight and flexible "vtk viewer" 
>with which I can - preferably in an automatated (ie scriptable) fashion 
>- render my output. I will want to be able to update the rendered image 
>on-the-fly as updated data files become available, and will want to be 
>able to produce lightweight .jpg (or similar) "snapshots" of my output.
>
>   Does there exist anything that will do what I want?
>
>       Many thanks,
>
>          Jamie Vicary
>
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