[vtkusers] Re: java with VTK

[Kenneth Evans, Jr.]

Hi,

     I am relatively new to VTK, but I find it works pretty well with Java.
Underneath it is using OpenGL, and I have found it to be fast.  The problem
seems to be that it is not widely used with java.  I have got no answers to
my mailing list queries, for example.  The Java examples are not in the
distribution nor mentioned in the Doxygen API docs, but it's not hard to
translate the examples that are there.  The examples are available
elsewhere:

http://ij-plugins.sourceforge.net/vtk-examples/index.html

There is an ExampleTree class in the examples.  You can run them all from
that and decide for yourself.  The main problem with the examples in my
experience, is that they mostly read binary data files, and you have no idea
what the plots are really plotting.  In addition, the files are mostly ones
I cannot generate.  It has been harder to figure out how to use it with my
own data, but I'm getting there.

     The Kitware books that describe VTK are not currently available.  That
doesn't help.

	-Ken