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VTK

Introduction

The Visualization ToolKit (VTK) is an open source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization. VTK consists of a C++ class library, and several interpreted interface layers including Tcl/Tk, Java, and Python.

Version

Version 5.0.4 is available at OSC.

Availability

VTK is available on the BALE Cluster and the Glenn Cluster. Currently, the C++, Python and Tcl API’s are installed, and the Java API for VTK is not installed.

Usage

To load VTK, run the module command:

module load vtk

Documentation

On-line documentation is available at http://www.vtk.org/doc/release/5.0/html/ .

Links to other helpful resources can be found at http://vtk.org. The documentation listed above is very technical. Starting with the wiki or faq is highly recommended. Example code can be found on the clusters in ${VTK_ROOT}/vtk-5.0.4-examples.tgz. Download the tar file into ${HOME}, using the commands:

cp ${VTK_ROOT}/vtk-5.0.4-examples.tgz .
tar xzvf vtk-5.0.4.examples.tgz