VTK Advanced Course
The advanced course builds upon the knowledge gained from the beginner course. It offers in-depth training on writing filters, composite data pipelines and advanced rendering approaches with VTK.
Objectives
- Learn about composite data structures
- Write a basic filter
- Create an advanced rendering
- Learn about parallel processing
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with VTK data structures
- Basic C++ programming knowledge
- Basic Python programming knowledge
- CMake knowledge a plus
- Familiarity with rendering approaches like ray tracing, a plus
Agenda
This course is approximately 8 hours, which can be divided into 2 or more sessions.
Review beginner’s course
- Data model
- Rendering model
Advanced data model
- Cell types
- Point and cell attributes
- Composite data
Pipeline model
- Executive
- Streaming data
Writing a filter
- Create Simple Filter
- Customize Inputs and Outputs
- Handle Meta-Data and data requests
- Create Image Filter
Rendering pipeline
- Lookup tables, transfer functions and interpolation
- Volume rendering
- 2D plots
Advanced rendering
- Render passes
- Shader replacements
- OSPRay
Parallel processing
- Shared memory parallelism
- Distributed memory parallelism
- Ghost data
Debugging
Next Public Course
May 14, 2025, 1-5 pm, ET
May 15, 2025, 1-5 pm, ET
Instructor: Sankhesh Jhaveri
Duration: 8 hours
Venue: Remote
Language: English
Early Bird Registration: $840
Use code EARLY-BIRD-8
Register by April 30, 2025
Standard Registration: $1,050
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Early Bird Student: $420
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Register by April 30, 2025
Student: $530
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