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Vtk [http://www.kitware.com/] 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 [http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/tcl96/martin.html] [http://public.kitware.com/VTK/pdf/dioot.pdf], however, as of 2017 '''[VTK is deprecating Tcl/Tk]'''. It's also tightly integrated with Java and C++.
Its test suite, Dart, automates nightly regression [testing] and puts status displays on the Web [http://public.kitware.com/VTK/Testing/Dashboard/MostRecentResults-Nightly/Dashboard.html].
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:vtkedit@esat.kuleuven.ac.be|
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| What:| Visualization Toolkit (VTk)|
| Where:| http://www.kitware.com/opensource/vtk.html <
> http://www.vtk.org/|
|Description:| An object-oriented 3D visualization system (3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization) 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|
|Updated:| 2013-06-27 VTK 6.0.0|
|Contact:| mailto:martink@cs.rpi.edu (Kenneth M Martin)|
|Contact:| http://www.kitware.com/company/contact.html|
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| 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:prabhu@cyberwaveindia.com|
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| What:| vtkGUI|
| Where:| http://www.hpc.cineca.it/software/vtkgui-visual-programming-tool-visualization-toolkit <
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/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: vtkgui@cineca.it|
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| 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: thomas.dunne@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de |
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VTKit [http://www.bioengineering-research.com/vtk/vtkit.htm] is a tclkit extended with the vtk 5.5 libraries for the Windows(tm) platform.
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Two VTK books are freely available for download :
[IMG_vtkbook]
- VTK User’s Guide [https://www.vtk.org/vtk-users-guide/]
- Visualization Toolkit: An Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics [https://www.vtk.org/vtk-textbook/]
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http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/djd/graphs/%|%Graph Visualization Library%|%: a library of filters for visualizing large graphs. Includes Tcl/Tk example scripts.
<> Package | Graphics | 3D Graphics | Visualization