[vtkusers] VTK / ParaView Training in Bangkok, Thailand October 27, 28

[Lisa Avila]

Kitware is pleased to announce a VTK / ParaView training course in 
Bangkok, Thailand on October 27th and 28th, 2008. This two day hands-on 
course will cover VTK and ParaView at a beginner / intermediate levels. 
This course is appropriate for developers who are new to VTK or ParaView 
and would like to understand the pipeline architecture, the rendering 
subsystem, and data visualization techniques applied to a variety of 
data types. This course is also appropriate for project managers who are 
considering using VTK or ParaView as a visualization solution, and 
educators who would like to use VTK or ParaView in their academic courses.

The course will take place in Bangkok, Thailand at an area hotel. The 
cost for the 2 day training is $2,000 USD per attendee. Group and 
student discounts are available. Please contact courses at kitware.com for 
further information.

Further information can be found at 
http://www.kitware.com/products/protraining.html. The registration 
deadline is August 15th, 2008. If minimum attendance is not obtained, 
Kitware will notify all registered attendees of course cancellation by 
August 22nd, 2008. Note that payment is due on or before the first day 
of the course.

Each course attendee will receive a bound copy of the course notes, as 
well as the following three books:
- The VTK User's Guide
- The VTK Textbook
- The ParaView Guide

Course attendees are required to bring a laptop. Assistance will be 
provided via email prior to download, install and/or build all necessary 
software. The course is interactive with about 50% of the time dedicated 
to lecture and 50% dedicated to hands-on exercises designed to reinforce 
the instructional material.

The course topics will include:

Monday, October 27th - AM Session: Introduction to VTK including the 
toolkit's history, the quality process / nightly testing strategy using 
CDash / CTest, and the build process using CMake. An overview of the 
toolkit will be provided, along with a detailed description of the 
rendering subsystem.

Monday, October 27th - PM Session: A detailed introduction to VTK's 
pipeline architecture including the various supported structured and 
unstructured data models, and method for reading, writing, and 
processing this data. Concepts such as modification times, data 
streaming, and subject / observer event processing will be covered. In 
addition, several basic surface and volume rendering examples will be 
discussed.

Tuesday, October 28th - AM Session: A set of data visualization examples 
will be explored using a variety of data processing filters and 
visualization algorithms. The examples will include both structured and 
unstructured data, 2D image, 3D surface, and volume rendering 
visualization techniques, and various data processing algorithms. This 
session will cover basic user interaction for rotate / pan / zoom, as 
well as more complex interaction through the use of 3D widgets.

Tuesday, October 28th - PM Session: An introduction to ParaView from the 
desktop user's point of view. An overview of ParaView functionality will 
be provided, and attendees will interact with a variety of data types to 
experience the power of VTK through an end-user application.


Please contact courses at kitware.com if you have any questions on this or 
other Kitware course offerings.