[vtkusers] creating a demo test program

[Robert S Laramee]

Dear Fellow VTK Users,

We here at the VRVis Research Center
(vrvis.at) are trying to perform a simple
evaluation of the VTK against three other 
packages: Open Inventer from Mercury, Coin3D, 
and Hoops3D.

As part of our evaluation we would like to
construct a very simple test program.
We would like a program to:

1.  Load an arbitrary (one of our own)
    triangular surface mesh
2.  Rotate the mesh 360 degrees
3.  Measure and print out the frames/second
    and (optionally)
4.  Perform some off-screen rendering of
    the resulting image

Can anyone suggest the best place for us to
start?  Is there an existing sample VTK demo 
program that could be modified to perform
this task?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

-cheers, bob

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