[vtkusers] Any plan to update the books?

Mon Mar 26 10:56:29 EDT 2018

Just a quick update on this guys. We would love to provide editable
versions of both books. The challenge is that they are in old Framemaker
format and we have not had the time to focus on finding a way to generate
some form of editable content from them. I don't believe exporting to
another format from Framemaker is a good option. So we have contemplating
scraping the PDF for content and generating all new images (which Bill
Lorensen did to a great extent). Will Schroeder has been contemplating
doing a new version that is interactive on the Web also. If there are folks
out there with concrete ideas on how to move forward, we would be happy to
have everyone engaged in finding a way forward.

I have some ideas of my own:

* Combine contents to create one book that is a hybrid textbook / user's
guide, more focused on teaching visualization as covered by VTK
* Generate a separate guide with lots of examples that can be translated to
various languages that VTK supports leveraging content from the book as
well as VTK examples online. This could be an online thing.

Best,
-berk

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:49 AM, Andras Lasso <lasso at queensu.ca> wrote:

> Yes, the VTK textbook is great and still up-to-date, except specific
> source code examples. If it was made available in editable form then I’m
> sure there would be volunteers to update the examples (convert Tcl to
> Python and update according to VTK API), and maybe describe some notable
> core changes (pipeline changes, etc).
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>
> I have never found the VTK User’s Guide particularly suitable for a
> printed book format. At user guide level online resources (examples, API
> documentation, etc.) are easier to use, because you can search better, they
> are hyperlinked, you can copy-paste, etc. Online materials are also easier
> to keep up-to-date.
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> Andras
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> *From:* vtkusers <vtkusers-bounces at vtk.org> *On Behalf Of *David E DeMarle
> *Sent:* Monday, March 26, 2018 10:39 AM
> *To:* Jesse Kinross-Smith <Jesse.Kinross-Smith at bentley.com>
> *Cc:* vtkusers at vtk.org
> *Subject:* Re: [vtkusers] Any plan to update the books?
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> We don't have any near term plans for an update.
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> The books certainly do need a refresh, including a math reformat for the
> free online versions, however just about of the techniques described in
> them are still valid.
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> Most of the code is still valid, with the important exception of a few
> places in need of  version 5->6 changes. For those refer to
> https://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/VTK_6_Migration_Guide
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> David E DeMarle
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> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 3:42 AM, Jesse Kinross-Smith <
> Jesse.Kinross-Smith at bentley.com> wrote:
>
> Are there any plans to update these books at all?
>
> I’d love to get some books to help me learn the ins and outs of VTK for
> the office, but anything over 5 years old in this industry is usually
> pretty obsolete I’ve found.
>
>
>
> Visualization Toolkit: An Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics, 4th
> Edition - December 1, 2006
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Visualization-Toolkit-Object-
> Oriented-Approach-Graphics/dp/193093419X
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> VTK User's Guide Paperback – 11th Ed. March 18, 2010
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> https://www.amazon.com/VTK-Users-Guide-Kitware/dp/1930934238
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