[vtkusers] Re: New in VTK 5.0?

[Goodwin Lawlor]

Robert Wang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm quite new to VTK and I'm working on a project with VTK 4.2 and have 
> to upgrade to 5.0.  I'd like to find out what has changed and improved 
> so I can take advantage of VTK 5.0 for our application but I can't seem 
> to find documentation on what actually changed. 

The FAQ:
http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ#Changes_to_the_VTK_API

The Wiki:
An old document: www.vtk.org/Wiki/images/8/80/Pipeline.pdf

The source tree:
http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/Utilities/Upgrading/TheNewVTKPipeline.pdf?rev=1.4.4.1

> If someone can let me 
> know where I can find this information, it's greatly appreciated!  In 
> particular, I'm curious to know if VTK 5.0 can handle 4D (3D + Time) 
> data better and if readers/writers has changed.

http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Time_Support

There's a lot more too... higher order elements, HW shaders, 3D texture 
vol rendering, composite datasets, new widgets framework, infovis, STL, 
iterators, adaptor framework, etc...

hth

Goodwin