Version 11 of Vtk

Updated 2014-04-18 13:59:14 by SEH

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Vtk [L1 ] is a powerful engine for scientific visualization. It's open source. Karl Lehenbauer finds it "quite amazing".

It has used Tcl/Tk as an integration platform from nearly the beginning [L2 ], [L3 ]. It's also tightly integrated with Java and C++.

Its test suite, Dart, automates nightly regression testing and puts status displays on the Web [L4 ]. It, too, is open source and is discussed further on the testing page of the Wiki.

 What: vtkedit
 Where: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/%7Evtkedit/index.shtml
 Description: Editor for the VTk visualization toolkit
 Updated: 07/2001
 Contact: mailto:[email protected]

 What: Visualization Toolkit (VTk)
 Where: http://public.kitware.com/
        http://www.acns.com/%7Evtk/
        http://www.kitware.com/vtkhtml/vtkData/subscribe.html
        http://www.hds.utc.fr/%7Ebarre/vtk/
 Description: An object-oriented 3D visualization system
        written in C++ with full bindings for Tcl/Tk, Java and Python.
        It has rendering support for OpenGL, Starbase, GL, XGL, and X.
        It will run on UNIX, Windows96 and WindowsNT.
        This is the code from the Prentice Hall book
        "The Visualization Toolkit, an Object-Oriented Approach to 3D
        Graphics" (ISBN 013199837-4).  Version 2.0 beta is currently
        available.
 Updated: 08/2001
 Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Kenneth M Martin)

 What: VTK-CFD
 Where: http://www.visualizationtoolkit.org/
        http://www.aero.iitm.ernet.in/%7Eprabhu/software/vtk/vtk-cfd/
        http://www.aero.iitm.ernet.in/%7Eprabhu/software/vtk/vtkPipeline/
 Description: Visualization toolkit for Computational Fluid Dynamics data,
        written in Python and tkinter.
        Currently at version 0.6 .
        Also available is a Python module implementing a Visualization
        pipeline browser, using VTK and Tkinter.
        Currently at version 1.0 .
 Updated: 07/2001
 Contact: mailto:[email protected]

 What: vtkGUI
 Where: http://visit.cineca.it/vtkGUI/
 Description: vtkGUI is a free, open source program written in TCL/IncrTCL that 
        was initially inspired by vtkPipeline and vtkShow. Its purpose is to allow 
        quick assembly of a VTK pipeline in order to teach/learn/prototype with VTK.
        vtkGUI is not meant to do any robust work. However, since it can save VTK 
        pipelines in both TCL and C++ it can be used as the starting point for any bigger 
        application.
 Updated: 11/2004
 Contact: mailto: [email protected]

 What: VisuSimple
 Where: http://dunne.uni-hd.de/VisuSimple/
 Description: VisuSimple is an interactive visualization and graphics/mpeg-generation 
        program for 2D- and 3D-data in the VTK-format. One can (among other things)
        *read Structured or Unstructured data files in VTK-format ("data.vtk")
        *visualize the grid
        *visualize isolines (isosurfaces)
        *visualize carpets of 2d scalar data, shading
        *visualize vectorfields as arrows, multiple arrowtypes can be chosen from
        *make simple animations

 Updated: 12/2006
 Contact: mailto: [email protected] 

VTKit [L5 ] is a tclkit extended with the vtk libraries for the Windows(tm) platform.