[vtkusers] Re: VTK Glossary

[Goodwin Lawlor]

Hi Peter,

peter schaafsma wrote:
> When starting off with VTK a couple of weeks ago, I remember struggling 
> with basic the terminology. I took me quite a while, considering what 
> the actually mean, to figure out exactly how spacing and extent were 
> defined in VTK. 

Learning VTK in a couple of weeks is pretty good going!

> Why is there no VTK glossary, or, even better, the ability to extend the 
> wiki with such terms? This would greatly benefit new users, and flatten 
> the VTK learning curve.

There is a glossary at the back of the VTK textbook "The Visualization 
Toolkit An Object-Oriented Approach To 3D Graphics 4th Edition". Have a 
look at the table of contents here: 
http://www.kitware.com/products/vtktextbooktoc.pdf

Having said that a wiki glossary would be great...

Good luck!

Goodwin