Example Code

Doxygen Generated Manuals

• Manual: 5.8, 5.x (nightly)
• Manual: 5.6, 5.4, 5.2, 5.0, 4.0, 4.2.1

VTK-Related Papers and Technical Documents

• VTK File Formats
• Parametric surfaces technical description by Andrew Maclean (revised 10 September 2006)
• The use of the ordered triangulator to produce compatible triangulations.
• Parallel processing with VTK (technical paper)
• Generic filtering and adapting VTK to external simulation packages and libraries (technical paper)

VTK Links of Interest

• Parallel processing with VTK (technical paper)
• Check out Paul Rajlich's VTK pipeline browser

• The Open Source business model by Naomi Hoffman
• Creating compatible triangulations using the ordered triangulator
  (technical paper)
• The framework for higher-order cell visualization (technical paper)
• Sebastien's VTK Links

The Kitware Source

The Kitware Source is a quarterly newsletter for developers designed to deliver detailed technical articles, information on recent releases and upcoming changes related to Kitware's open source products. This includes information on VTK. The following is a compendium of VTK related articles that have appeared in the Source.

• Improvements to 3D Plots in VTK, October 2011
• Community Spotlight: VTK's First Google Summer of Code, October 2011
• Visualization and Analysis of AMR Datasets, July 2011
• Eye-Dome Lighting: a non-photorealistic shading technique, April 2011
• A Tour of VTK Pointer Classes, April 2011
• Multi-Resolution Streaming in VTK and ParaView, October 2010
• Community Spotlight: Iturribizia on how XC utilizes VTK, October 2010
• VTK Wrapper Overhaul 2010, October 2010
• Rendered Realism at (Nearly) Real Time Rates, July 2010
• New Chart API in VTK, July 2010
• Packaging VTK for Astrophysical Data Analysis Using CPack, July 2010
• MRCAD for Daily Clinical Analysis of Prostate MR, April 2010
• MATLAB and GNU R Integration with VTK Now Available, April 2010
• Kitware on Apple OS X: It Just Works, in MacPorts, April 2010
• A Synthethic LiDAR Scanner for VTK, January 2010
• MATLAB and GNU R Integration with VTK, October 2009
• Selections in VTK, April 2009
• Distributed Graphs in VTK Using PBGL, October 2008
• GPU Ray Casting in VTKEdge, July 2008
• Information Visualization in VTK with Titan, April 2008
• Composite Datasets in VTK, April 2008
• Depth Peeling In VTK, April 2008
• Time Support in VTK, April 2007
• Connecting ITK and VTK, April 2007
• VTK's 3D Widgets, January 2007
• VTK 5.0 Pipeline Architecture, July 2006
• VTK Shaders, October 2006
• Composite Datasets in VTK, October 2006

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