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Links
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Don't forget to check the official
VTK web site (and Kitware
: VTK), What
is VTK ? and the VTK
overview.
Man pages
The VTK documentation is now generated
using Doxygen, thanks to the work of some VTK users. The whole process
is described in the Doxygen documentation project
page.
Books
The
Visualization Toolkit, An Object-Oriented Approach To 3D Graphics
(W. Schroeder,
K. Martin, Bl Lorensen)
646 pages, 40 color pages, CD-ROM with software/data, ISBN 0-13-954694-4,
Prentice Hall (amazon.com).
Book figure images, Color Plate images.
The
VTK User's Guide (+
its PDF toc)
"Everything you need to install,
use, and extend vtk. Detailed examples, installation procedures,
developers guide, file format descriptions, how to write imaging
and graphics filters, plus data object API details for vtk version
2.2. [...]. The vtk Users's Guide is a companion text to The Visualization
Toolkit text. While The Visualization Toolkit stresses algorithmic
and data structure details, the vtk User's Guide stresses how to
use the software."
BookStore
(various pointers and suggested material at Kitware)
Papers
The
Design and Implementation of an Object-Oriented Toolkit for 3D Graphics
and Visualization (
PDF)
(W. Schroeder,
K. Martin, Bl Lorensen)
IEEE Visualization '96, San Francisco, California, USA.
Visualizing
with VTK: A Tutorial (
PDF), IEEE Computer Graphics
And Applications (sept/oct 2000)
(W. Schroeder,
L. Avila, W. Hoffman)
A
Parallel Approach for Efficiently Visualizing Extremely Large, Time-Varying
Datasets (
PDF)
(J. Ahrens,
C. Law, W. Schroeder, K. Martin, M. Papka)
Los Alamos National Laboratory Technical Report #LAUR-00-1620
Specs
VTK
File Formats (
PDF file, taken from the VTK User's Guide)
Misc.
Possible
Steps to Improve the VTK Library
(A. D. Burry)
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