[vtkusers] IDL vs VTK-ITK

[Hossein Ghadiri]

Cartik,

Thanks for your info,

I'm not very old in VTK/ITK,

I'm C++ programmer and trying to develop a Quantitative Computed Tomography
software package including a little processing & visualization.

If IDL can aim me to my target easier than VTK/ITK please let me know.

I found VTK using in MFC very inertial and my problems in this issue is
continuing.

 

Hossein

Medical Physics PhD candidate

IUMS

 

 

 

 

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From: Cartik Sharma [mailto:csharma at simquest.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 8:45 PM
To: Hossein Ghadiri; vtkusers at vtk.org
Subject: Re: [vtkusers] IDL vs VTK-ITK

 

Hi Hossein, 

IDL is a useful tool   geared towards medical image processing, as well as
handling of large astronomical  datasets. 

IDL is Fortran and C based so if you are a fortran programmer and interested
in "lean routines" to accomplish numerical analysis then you'll like IDL.

I'm an IDL programmer migrating towards ITK/VTK development. They both have
their strengths.  

VTK has a richer set of classes,  multiple intrepreted language support,
strong integration from 3rd party libraries such as afsl

and contributons from a wide open source community. 

I think I'll continue being an idl developer for prototyping programs till I
fully migrate to ITK/VTK.

Best regards,

Cartik

On Fri, 15 May 2009 12:57:27 +0430 "Hossein Ghadiri" wrote: 
>All, 
> 
>If some one has any experiences working with IDL, give 
>me some notes. 
> 
>Are they comparable? What can do IDL that VTK-ITK can 
>not? 
> 
>Is it on C++ platform or stand on another languages? 
> 
>Best 
> 
>Hossein Ghadiri 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Cartik S. Sharma

Sr. Developer

SimQuest LLC

(301).587.9440 extn 11

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