[vtkusers] The ParaView Guide

[Amy Henderson]

At 06:38 AM 12/5/2004, Roland Schulz wrote:
>Hello,
>
>On Friday 03 December 2004 20:58, Amy Henderson wrote:
> > Kitware has recently published a new book, "The ParaView Guide".  It
> > details the use and development of ParaView, a parallel visualization
> > application capable of handling very large data sets.  The book coincides
> > with version 1.8 of the software.  The book is available for purchase from
> > Kitware's on-line store: go to www.kitware.com, and select "ParaView Guide"
> > from the Products/Services menu.  The price of the book is $72, which
> > includes shipping within the US.
>How does it compare to the online avaible "The ParaView Guide"? Is it just an
>updateto version 1.8? It seems to be alot more detailed (340p to 77p). What
>additional topics are covered? Is there a table of content available?

Hi Roland,

For version 1.8 of ParaView, there will not be an on-line ParaView user's 
guide.  The new book, "The ParaView Guide", is much more comprehensive than 
the user's guide that has been available on-line for previous versions of 
ParaView.  The topics that were covered in the user's guide are included in 
the first part of the book, but much more detail is included.  There is 
also a developer's guide portion of the book which did not exist in the 
on-line version.  The table of contents is not available on-line anywhere, 
but the following is a list of the chapter titles.

- Amy

PART I: USER'S GUIDE

CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW
CHAPTER 2: USER INTERFACE
CHAPTER 3: LOADING DATA
CHAPTER 4: DATA PROPERTY SHEETS
CHAPTER 5: DATA MANIPULATION
CHAPTER 6: INTERACTION
CHAPTER 7: ANNOTATION
CHAPTER 8: ANIMATION
CHAPTER 9: SAVING
CHAPTER 10: BATCH PROCESSING
CHAPTER 11: INTRODUCTION TO PARALLEL COMPUTING AND VISUALIZATION
CHAPTER 12: PARALLEL PARAVIEW
CHAPTER 13: TUTORIALS
APPENDIX A: SOURCES
APPENDIX B: FILTERS
APPENDIX C: COMMAND-LINE ARGUMENTS AND ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
APPENDIX D: PARAVIEW DATA (PVD) FILE FORMAT

PART II: DEVELOPER'S GUIDE

CHAPTER 14: PARAVIEW ARCHITECTURE
CHAPTER 15: COMPILING / INSTALLING PARAVIEW
CHAPTER 16: SERVER MANAGER
CHAPTER 17: PARAVIEW XML
CHAPTER 18: MODIFYING THE USER INTERFACE
CHAPTER 19: WRITING PARAVIEW READERS
CHAPTER 20: WIDGETS AND PROPERTIES
CHAPTER 21: THE VTK CLIENT-SERVER LANGUAGE
CHAPTER 22: RENDER MODULES
CHAPTER 23: TESTING
GLOSSARY
INDEX