The Source: October 2006

This issue of the Kitware Software Developer’s Quarterly newsletter contains three in-depth articles related to Ktiware’s open source projects. Julien Jomier introduces the Spatial Object Viewers (SOV) toolkit, tying both VTK and ITK together to provide visualization methods for ITK’s Spatial Objects. Utkarsh Ayachit delivers a tutorial on the use of shaders in VTK, allowing users access to advanced GPU capabilities from within the VTK rendering paradigm. Berk Geveci contributes an overview of multi-block and adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) data sets in VTK, including details on writing algorithms to process composite data sets.

Table of Contents

Editor’s Note......................................................................... 1
Recent Releases ................................................................... 1
Spatial Object Viewers .......................................................... 3
VTK Shaders......................................................................... 4
Composite Datasets in VTK ................................................... 6
In Progress ......................................................................... 11
Kitware News ...................................................................... 12