User:Tohline/vtk/Understanding

Understanding vtk Tools Inside VisTrails

Basic Concepts

VTK User's Guide

I advise that a new user begin by playing with the Vistrails module that renders a simple cylinder. It can be found under the VisTrails examples folder as: …/examples/vtk_examples/Rendering/Cylinder.vt. Note that the suffix (or file type) ".vt" indicates that the file is a VisTrails (vt) python module; VisTrails modules, in turn, heavily refer to routines that are available through the open source Visualization Toolkit (vtk) library. This is a good example to begin with because it is highlighted in Chapter 4 of the VTK User's Guide, authored and published by Kitware, Inc.

Figure 1: A Simple Cylinder
Caption: To be written.

Web References

Here are some potentially relevant web pages:

• Examples (1)
• VTK File Formats