[vtkusers] Activiz 5.10

[David Cole]

How many people would pay something on a Kickstarter project or an 
Indiegogo project to make ActiViz .NET 5.10 and 6.0 happen? I've been 
considering trying to make it happen with an appropriate funding level, 
but fear that there would not quite be enough interest in this to make 
it happen. If it seems like it's actually possible, (based on response 
here), I might actually do that.

This question about ActiViz 5.10's availability has been asked and 
answered repeatedly, usually by Dave DeMarle, on the VTK mailing 
lists... Do a google on "activiz 5.10 site:vtk.org" to see the previous 
emails.

The bottom line is that I started a gerrit topic to merge ActiViz .NET 
into mainstream VTK 'master' itself last fall, worked on it bit by bit 
 from September until January, and then ... had to leave it in the hands 
of my capable colleagues because of my new duties. It is sitting on the 
shelf for now for want of funding.

The work-in-progress can be seen in this gerrit topic:

    http://review.source.kitware.com/#/t/1615/

There is a wiki page about it here:

    http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/CSharp/ComingSoon

The problems you have trying to build ActiViz .NET yourself are due to 
the modularization of VTK. You should be able to build a standalone 
ActiViz .NET against VTK 5.10 (rather than VTK 'master'), although you 
may run into some different problems that are addressed by some pieces 
of the commits that you'll see in the above topic.

Unfortunately, it requires a bit of work to keep things in sync with 
the constantly shifting and changing VTK, and that was one of the 
motivations behind trying to get it into VTK itself. Since ActiViz .NET 
was scarcely-funded at best, it was challenging to keep it up to date 
constantly.

Please do reply with a "go for it" or "Kickstarter +1" if you would be 
willing to pay something to see ActiViz continue breathing.... If 
there's really enough interest in it, maybe I'll actually do one.  :-)


David C.





-----Original Message-----
From: Boxer, Aaron <Aaron.Boxer at uhn.ca>
To: vtkusers <vtkusers at vtk.org>
Sent: Wed, Mar 27, 2013 3:13 pm
Subject: [vtkusers] Activiz 5.10



Is this planned any time soon? 
 
Thanks!

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