[vtkusers] Re: VTK or OpenGL directly? (Julian Holt)

[Prashanth Dumpuri]

Julian,
This might not answer your question of VTK or OpenGL..but you might not
have to write codes. Have you looked into Mayavi ?
(http://mayavi.sourceforge.net/). It's built using VTK and has a GUI
interface.
good luck,
prashanth

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> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:41:08 -0000
> From: "Julian Holt" <jholt at cadfem.com>
> Subject: [vtkusers] VTK or OpenGL directly?
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> Guys
> 
> This might be a strange question but hey.....
> 
> I am writing a FE viewer and I am looking at VTK and various other "OGL
> wrappers"
> 
> But......
> 
> I am wondering if infact VTK is NOT the way to go?
> 
> Basically all I need to do is render 3 and 4 sided polygons with scalar
> values at vertex points and then provide 3D rotation + interrogation.
> 
> Now VTK does all this (and more) but as a newbie it seems to me that if I am
> going to dive off and learn yet another API then why not just learn the
> OpenGL API?
> 
> I.E code OGL directly and forget wrapper apps.
> 
> VTK obviously does a lot of other cool stuff (grid generation etc) but I
> don't need to do that because my meshes are built in external FE codes. I am
> only interested in display/viewing stuff.
> 
> Having taken an OGL book home last night to read whilst watching tv (sad I
> know), the OGL API doesn't look too bad and OGL is probably a more portable
> skill - there is even a version that runs on mobile phones!!!!
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Is OGL a nightmare to code when you get into it?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Julian
>