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Process images and create 3D computer graphics with the Visualization Toolkit.

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is open source software for manipulating and displaying scientific data. It comes with state-of-the-art tools for 3D rendering, a suite of widgets for 3D interaction, and extensive 2D plotting capability.

VTK is part of Kitware’s collection of supported platforms for software development. The platform is used worldwide in commercial applications, as well as in research and development. For examples, please see VTK in Action.

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VTK + Tcl/Tk: The Return

Is this code familiar? How about this? If either of these are familiar to you, you are among a small group of a people who had the pleasure of programming using Tcl/Tk. The first example is from VTK 5.4 (vtkTkRenderWidgetDemo.tcl). We’ll discover where the second example is from later. I was recently writing a blog […]

VTK the Polyglot

I joined Kitware in 2000. VTK was barely 7 years old. Even then, it supported development in C++, Java, Python, and Tcl. Most of developed in C++ and used Tcl/Tk for scripting and application development. In fact, did you know that ParaView’s GUI was Tk until ParaView 3 (released in 2007)? Anyway, that’s a story […]