[vtkusers] Fwd: Running a .vtk file

[David Doria]

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Martijn de Greef <m.d.greef at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You are correct. The core of the VTK toolkit is written in C/C++ and there
> are wrappers (so functions that call "vtk functions") in a variety of
> languages, for example tcl, python, java
>
> I'm not sure what you mean with "the VTK files". There are basically two
> type of files relevant here. The files that describe data (e.g. .vtk .vtp
> .ply .mhd, etc) organized in cells, polygons, points, images, etc. There is
> nothing to run here.
>
> The other type of files hold the code in the language of your choice. So
> this could be tcl if that would be the language of your choice, but also
> python, java, C++ or perhaps even something else. The reason that I
> suggested python is that, as many have some experience with Matlab, this is
> something you can learn quite fast.
>
> The vtk examples wiki could also be useful to
> you: http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples
>
> Martijn

You can also download Paraview (paraview.org) and inspect the vtk files.

David