[vtkusers] vtkCave

[John Shalf]

On Jun 17, 2004, at 11:08 AM, Andrew Dolgert wrote:
> I have a copy on my hard drive of some C++ files from Matthew Hall and 
> Dave
> Pape of EVL in 1999.  They use some CAVELib and OpenGL to put together 
> a VTK
> visualization in the CAVE.  It's small and to the point.  They call it
> vtk2cave.

vtk2cave can be found at
	http://zeus.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~mahall
I think Matt Hall might have a more recent version. At least I saw some 
really impressive demos of VTK integrated with VirDir at the last 
Supercomputing (http://virdir.ncsa.uiuc.edu/virdir/).

Paul Rajlich's Performer/CAVE provides a more advanced way of doing 
CAVE programming if you are starting from scratch.  But some older 
applications (eg. VirtualDirector) have a lot of components written in 
straight OpenGL.  Such components do not interact very well with 
Performer because Performer really needs to own the OpenGL context. 
Those are the apps that vtk2cave translator was written to support.  
Otherwise PerformerCAVE/vtkActorToPF is the way to go.

-john