Visualization Toolkit (VTK)

Category: Libraries-Graphics

Description

According to the VTK Homepage:

"The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open-source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization used by thousands of researchers and developers around the world. VTK consists of a C++ class library and several interpreted interface layers including Tcl/Tk, Java, and Python. Professional support and products for VTK are provided by Kitware, Inc. VTK supports a wide variety of visualization algorithms including scalar, vector, tensor, texture, and volumetric methods; and advanced modeling techniques such as implicit modeling, polygon reduction, mesh smoothing, cutting, contouring, and Delaunay triangulation. Additionally, VTK has an extensive information visualization framework, has a suite of 3D interaction widgets, supports parallel processing, and integrates with various databases on GUI toolkits such as Qt and Tk. VTK is cross-platform and runs on Linux, Windows, Mac and Unix platforms."

Use

Versions of VTK are available as modules. Additional information about VTK is available on the VTK Wiki.

	module avail vtk
	module load vtk/5.2.1
	 -o example example.c -lvtkCommon [-l ...]

Support

This package has the following support level : Unsupported

Available Versions

Version Available Builds
pgi gnu Other
5.2.1
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