[vtkusers] Lightweight Visualisation (via VTK) Software

[Daniel James White]

Hi Shakes,

An OS X version would be nice....?

BTW... see BioImageXD for a software that uses VTK and ITK for  
microscopy 3D data
http://www.bioimagexd.net

let me know what you think.


Dan


On Jun 4, 2009, at 6:00 PM, vtkusers-request at vtk.org wrote:

> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:26:00 +1000
> From: Shakes <Shekhar.Chandra at sci.monash.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Lightweight Visualisation (via VTK) Software
> To: David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com>
> Cc: vtkusers at vtk.org
> Message-ID: <4A277708.10300 at sci.monash.edu.au>
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>
> Hi David,
>
> I found Paraview and VTK daunting to use at first and certain things
> weren't obvious. DGV was designed as a first step program so that one
> could quickly check the data one produces without having to learn  
> and/or
> understand VTK and/or Paraview.
>
> I also needed quick 1D plots, their animations and transforms and to  
> see
> raw image data. On a side note, the DGV API has a much more simple
> interface than VTK imo (i.e. wrapper around VTK), making VTK usage
> easier. For instance a Surface Plot is:
>
> DGVSurfacePlotVTK *plot = new DGVSurfacePlotVTK;
>     plot->setName(name);
>     plot->setData(data);
>     plot->generatePlot();
>     plot->generateAxes();
>     plot->show();
>
> It will in future be designed with custom Discrete Tomography methods
> which are currently part of my PhD. Hope that answers some of your
> questions about DGV.
>
> Cheers
> Shakes

Dr. Daniel James White BSc. (Hons.) PhD
Senior Microscopist / Image Visualisation, Processing and Analysis
Light Microscopy and Image Processing Facilities
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