Perhaps this:<div><a href="http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ#What.27s_the_best_way_to_learn_VTK.3F">http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ#What.27s_the_best_way_to_learn_VTK.3F</a></div><div><br></div><div>...or some of the other FAQ answers will help you decide how to get started.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>HTH,</div><div>David</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Femi Ayinde <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:femi_folorunso@yahoo.com">femi_folorunso@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Dear Sir/Ma,<br>
I am completely new to VTK. I have a Vista based system and dont know how to get started.<br>
<br>
Please offer any assistance to me<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
Femi<br>
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> 3. Minimum Spanning Trees Re: Building VTK-BGL<br>
> algorithms (using<br>
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> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:10:09 -0500<br>
> From: "David Cole" <<a href="mailto:david.cole@kitware.com">david.cole@kitware.com</a>><br>
> Subject: [vtkusers] VTK 5.2.1<br>
> To: vtk-developers <<a href="mailto:vtk-developers@vtk.org">vtk-developers@vtk.org</a>>, vtk<br>
> <<a href="mailto:vtkusers@vtk.org">vtkusers@vtk.org</a>><br>
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> Dear VTK users and developers,<br>
><br>
> The VTK 5.2.1 patch release is now available for download<br>
> from the VTK<br>
> web site: <a href="http://www.vtk.org/get-software.php" target="_blank">http://www.vtk.org/get-software.php</a>. The<br>
> following changes<br>
> are included in this release.<br>
><br>
> *changes from 5.2.0 to 5.2.1:*<br>
> 1) Fix Borland compile problem in vtkConvertSelection.cxx<br>
> 2) Fix links on main Doxygen page<br>
> 3) Eliminate compiler warnings in generated code<br>
> 4) Invoke EndInteractionEvent *after* the WidgetState is<br>
> changed<br>
> 5) Fix issue 7511: vtkSmoothPolyDataFilter crash<br>
> 6) Fix issue 7512: make vtkPlaneWidget sphere resizing<br>
> smoother<br>
> 7) Fix issue 7518: vtkDataReader memory errors<br>
> 8) Fix sharedforward with a space in the path. Thanks to<br>
> Brad King.<br>
> 9) Enable kwsys' SystemInfo<br>
> 10) Add install rules for vtkExportKit.cmake and<br>
> <a href="http://vtkKit.cmake.in" target="_blank">vtkKit.cmake.in</a><br>
> 11) Add install rules for vtkEncodeString and<br>
> vtkTestDriver.h<br>
> 12) Fix incorrect documentation tag file name<br>
> 13) Fix problem with passing null object to java wrapped<br>
> methods<br>
> 14) Get GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE from OpenGL rather than using a<br>
> hard coded value<br>
> 15) Propagate render window size changes to the render<br>
> window interactor<br>
> 16) Fix issue 7638: ensure correct resource context when<br>
> switching OpenGL<br>
> contexts on Windows<br>
> 17) Add missing WM_SETCURSOR handler to<br>
> vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow<br>
> 18) Improvements to FindMySQL.cmake<br>
> 19) Improve vtkAVIWriter: Allow programmatically setting<br>
> the compressor<br>
> 20) Improve vtkAVIWriter: Allow user to choose codec<br>
> 21) Fix crash: do not pass invalid parameters to strftime<br>
> 22) Add Tcl/Tk 8.6 support<br>
> 23) Fix issue 7887: numerical error in vtkContourValues<br>
> 24) Fix issue 7705: vtkfreetype compile problem on Mac<br>
> 25) Fix issue with compiling vtkOpenGLExtensionManager on<br>
> Solaris 10<br>
> 26) Implement GetBounds in<br>
> Widgets/vtkPolygonalHandleRepresentation3D<br>
> 27) Remove vtklibxml2 dependency on libhistory and<br>
> libreadline<br>
><br>
> *changes from 5.0.4 to 5.2.0:*<br>
> - Infovis kit<br>
> - Views kit<br>
> - New Widgets architecture and more than a dozen new<br>
> widgets<br>
> - New Utilities: freerange, verdict, libxml2, metaio,<br>
> sqlite<br>
> - Updated Utilities: freetype, zlib<br>
> - More than 300 new C++ classes<br>
> - More than 100 new C++ tests running on most dashboards<br>
> - Improvements to PLY file support<br>
> - Many bug fixes, including much improved Java wrapping<br>
> support<br>
> - Mac OS X-specific fixes:<br>
> -- Defaults to building using Cocoa instead of Carbon<br>
> -- Can now be compiled against the 10.5 SDK<br>
> -- Can now be built as a Universal Binary<br>
> -- Initial support for Resolution Independence in 10.5<br>
><br>
> We hope you enjoy this new release of VTK.<br>
><br>
> - David<br>
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> From: "David Cole" <<a href="mailto:david.cole@kitware.com">david.cole@kitware.com</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] VTK 5.2 Tag file?<br>
> To: "Peter F Bradshaw" <<a href="mailto:pfb@exadios.com">pfb@exadios.com</a>><br>
> Cc: VTK users <<a href="mailto:vtkusers@vtk.org">vtkusers@vtk.org</a>><br>
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> With the new patch release for VTK 5.2.1, there is now a<br>
> documentation tag<br>
> file available at:<br>
> <a href="http://www.vtk.org/doc/release/5.2/vtk5.2.1.tag" target="_blank">http://www.vtk.org/doc/release/5.2/vtk5.2.1.tag</a><br>
><br>
> Please try it out and let me know if you encounter any<br>
> problems using it.<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> David<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:07 AM, David Cole<br>
> <<a href="mailto:david.cole@kitware.com">david.cole@kitware.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > I've committed changes to CVS HEAD and the VTK-5-2<br>
> branch to make sure the<br>
> > documentation tag file name is correct w.r.t. the<br>
> version number of VTK.<br>
> > Doing that broke the *nightly* (CVS HEAD) doxygen<br>
> propagation script on Oct.<br>
> > 8, but tomorrow we should see the nightly<br>
> documentation updated properly<br>
> > again.<br>
> ><br>
> > Next time we do a patch release for VTK 5.2, I will<br>
> make sure we upload a<br>
> > tag file for it, too.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks,<br>
> > David<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Peter F Bradshaw<br>
> <<a href="mailto:pfb@exadios.com">pfb@exadios.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> >> Hi David;<br>
> >><br>
> >> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, David Cole wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >> > No. There is no tag file on the server.<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > In investigating the documentation creation<br>
> process.... it turns out<br>
> >> there<br>
> >> > is a tag file on the machine where doxygen<br>
> was run, but there are some<br>
> >> bits<br>
> >> > of the doc build process that need some<br>
> attention: it has old version<br>
> >> > numbers in it and is named<br>
> "vtk4.tag"... I will put it on my list to<br>
> >> make<br>
> >> > sure that next time we upload a patch release<br>
> there will be a correct<br>
> >> tag<br>
> >> > file with the docs.<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > Sorry for the inconvenience,<br>
> >><br>
> >> No worries, it is not a show stopper. Thanks.<br>
> >><br>
> >> > David<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Peter F<br>
> Bradshaw <<a href="mailto:pfb@exadios.com">pfb@exadios.com</a>><br>
> >> wrote:<br>
> >> ><br>
> >> > > Hi;<br>
> >> > ><br>
> >> > > Is there a Doxygen Tag File associated<br>
> with the documentation at<br>
> >> > > <a href="http://www.vtk.org/doc/release/5.2/html/" target="_blank">http://www.vtk.org/doc/release/5.2/html/</a><br>
> ?<br>
> >> > ><br>
> >> > > Thanks.<br>
> >> > ><br>
> >> > > Cheers<br>
> >> > ><br>
> >><br>
> >> Cheers<br>
> >><br>
> >> --<br>
> >> Peter F Bradshaw: <a href="http://www.exadios.com" target="_blank">http://www.exadios.com</a> (public<br>
> keys avaliable there).<br>
> >> Personal site: <a href="http://personal.exadios.com" target="_blank">http://personal.exadios.com</a><br>
> >> "I love truth, and the way the government<br>
> still uses it occasionally to<br>
> >> keep us guessing." - Sam Kekovich.<br>
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> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:42:26 -0500<br>
> From: "Aytekin Vargun" <<a href="mailto:varguna@gmail.com">varguna@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Subject: [vtkusers] Minimum Spanning Trees Re: Building<br>
> VTK-BGL<br>
> algorithms (using cmake)<br>
> To: "Jeff Baumes" <<a href="mailto:jeff.baumes@kitware.com">jeff.baumes@kitware.com</a>><br>
> Cc: <a href="mailto:vtkusers@vtk.org">vtkusers@vtk.org</a><br>
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> Thanks a lot Jeff,<br>
> It looks like I had several versions of VTK and this was<br>
> causing problems.<br>
><br>
> Now I have another problem. I am trying to use minimum<br>
> spanning tree<br>
> programs. I first tried to use<br>
> vtkBoostPrimMinimumSpanningTree but I am<br>
> getting the following error message:<br>
><br>
> "The Prim minimal spanning tree filter is still under<br>
> development... Use at<br>
> your own risk."<br>
><br>
> I checked where the error message is and then assumed that<br>
> I was getting<br>
> this message since the implementation is not complete yet.<br>
> But should I<br>
> still see some output on the screen?<br>
><br>
> I then tried to use vtkKruskalMinimumSpanningTree which<br>
> looks like in better<br>
> shape (whose output is a vtkSelectionAlgorithm). But I am<br>
> failed to display<br>
> its output since its output is not a tree but a forest<br>
> whereas Prim's<br>
> version produces a vtkTree . Then how can I display each<br>
> subtree? One way of<br>
> doing this probably is to cast the result to a graph and<br>
> then display the<br>
> resulting graph.<br>
><br>
> I will greatly appreciate if anyone shares his/her<br>
> experiences.<br>
> Thanks a lot.<br>
><br>
> Here is a simplified piece of code I am trying to run:<br>
><br>
> vtkMutableUndirectedGraph*<br>
> g=vtkMutableUndirectedGraph::New();<br>
><br>
> // This is used for finding minimum-spanning trees<br>
> vtkIntArray* edgeWeightsArr = vtkIntArray::New();<br>
> edgeWeightsArr->SetName("EdgeWeights");<br>
><br>
> VTK_CREATE(vtkRenderer, ren);<br>
><br>
> VTK_CREATE(vtkPoints, pts);<br>
> g->AddVertex();<br>
> pts->InsertNextPoint(0, 1, 0);<br>
> g->AddVertex();<br>
> pts->InsertNextPoint(0.5, 1, 0);<br>
> g->AddVertex();<br>
> pts->InsertNextPoint(0.25, 0.5, 0);<br>
> g->AddVertex();<br>
> pts->InsertNextPoint(0, 0, 0);<br>
> g->AddVertex();<br>
> pts->InsertNextPoint(0.5, 0, 0);<br>
> g->AddVertex();<br>
> pts->InsertNextPoint(1, 0, 0);<br>
> g->AddVertex();<br>
> pts->InsertNextPoint(0.75, 0.5, 0);<br>
> g->SetPoints(pts);<br>
><br>
> g->AddEdge(0, 1);<br>
> edgeWeightsArr->InsertNextValue(1);<br>
> g->AddEdge(0, 2);<br>
> edgeWeightsArr->InsertNextValue(1);<br>
> g->AddEdge(1, 2);<br>
> edgeWeightsArr->InsertNextValue(1);<br>
> g->AddEdge(2, 3);<br>
> edgeWeightsArr->InsertNextValue(1);<br>
> g->AddEdge(2, 4);<br>
> edgeWeightsArr->InsertNextValue(1);<br>
> g->AddEdge(3, 4);<br>
> edgeWeightsArr->InsertNextValue(1);<br>
><br>
> g->GetEdgeData()->AddArray(edgeWeightsArr);<br>
><br>
> //VTK_CREATE(vtkBoostPrimMinimumSpanningTree,mst);<br>
> VTK_CREATE(vtkBoostKruskalMinimumSpanningTree,mst);<br>
> mst->SetInput(g);<br>
> mst->SetEdgeWeightArrayName("EdgeWeights");<br>
> mst->Update();<br>
><br>
> // HOW TO DISPLAY<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Jeff Baumes<br>
> <<a href="mailto:jeff.baumes@kitware.com">jeff.baumes@kitware.com</a>>wrote:<br>
><br>
> > > When I compile the sample file, I get the first<br>
> error for the following<br>
> > > line:<br>
> > > VTK_CREATE(vtkBoostBiconnectedComponents,<br>
> biconn);<br>
> > ><br>
> > > (On CMake, I had set VTK_USE_BOOST set to ON when<br>
> building VTK)<br>
> ><br>
> > First, make sure that your app is linking against<br>
> vtkInfovis. If it<br>
> > is, it appears that the Boost algorithms are not being<br>
> compiled into<br>
> > the vtkInfovis library you are using. Ensure that the<br>
> vtkInfovis you<br>
> > are linking against is the one in the build where you<br>
> turned<br>
> > VTK_USE_BOOST on. In Visual Studio, you can check your<br>
> VTK build by<br>
> > looking at the source files under vtkInfovis. Make<br>
> sure the vtkBoost*<br>
> > files are there.<br>
> ><br>
> > Jeff<br>
> ><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> --<br>
> My web page: <a href="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~vargua" target="_blank">http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~vargua</a><br>
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> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:57:40 -0200<br>
> From: "Paul Jhin" <<a href="mailto:paul.jhin1@gmail.com">paul.jhin1@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Subject: [vtkusers] SplitExtent - Large ImageData<br>
> To: <a href="mailto:vtkusers@vtk.org">vtkusers@vtk.org</a><br>
> Message-ID:<br>
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> Hi,<br>
><br>
> How do I use the method SplitExtent?<br>
><br>
> I would divide into small parts to process, because I have<br>
> a very large<br>
> ImageData.<br>
><br>
> Code:<br>
><br>
> smooth = vtk.vtkImageGaussianSmooth()<br>
> smooth.SplitExtent( ???? )<br>
><br>
> and then as a separate procedure?<br>
><br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
> Paul Jhin<br>
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