Book Details:

Paperback: 536 pages
Publisher: Kitware, Inc. 11th Edition (March 2010)

ISBN-13: 978-1-930934-23-8
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.2 x 0.8 inches

BUILD YOUR APPLICATION WITH THE PREMIER VISUALIZATION SYSTEM VTK!
The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open-source, C++ toolkit used around the world in academic, research, and commercial applications. VTK has been used for medical imaging; to visualize the results of computer simulations such as fluid flow, climate modeling, and stress analysis; to view terrain and geophysical structures; to volume render confocal, MRI, CT, and Ultrasound datasets; and to create, edit and view models using advanced techniques from 3D graphics. VTK supports a variety of common data types and hundreds of algorithms. VTK's open-source code enables you to learn about visualization technology and to easily extend it for your own applications.

• Precompiled binaries for Windows systems allow you to build Tcl applications without needing to compile the VTK libraries.
  
  
• CMake controls the build process on Windows, Unix, and Mac OSX systems—build portable applications on different compiler/operating system/hardware combinations without the hassle of managing different build environments.
  
  
• Hundreds of examples (in Tcl and C++) show you how to use VTK for a wide range of applications, ranging from 3D graphics to image processing to data visualization.
  
  
• Contains full hyper-linked manual pages. Every class has its own page with collaboration and inheritance diagrams, method descriptions, event listings, and cross-references to related classes.
  
  
• Provides an extensive data directory for testing, experimenting and using in your own applications.
  
  
• Regression test images allow you to validate your VTK installation or graphics hardware.

• A new chapter detailing VTK's information visualization functionality, including the table, graph, and tree data structures required to represent non-spatial data.
  
  
• Enhanced details on 2D and 3D widgets and other forms of user interaction required to create an exploratory visualization application.
  
  
• A new chapter on geospatial visualization for geographically organized data.
  
  
• Additional details on time dependent and composite data.
  
  
• Discussion of advanced rendering techniques including depth peeling for transparency.

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