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Visualization Toolkit on Athena updated to release 3.1.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Feb 8 16:04:23 2001
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To: software-announce@MIT.EDU, dorsey@MIT.EDU
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Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 16:03:48 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I have updated the Vizualization Toolkit on Athena to release 3.1.2
and made it the Athena default for all platforms including Linux- this
is a 3d graphics imaging Toolkit/API based on OpenGL/Mesa which comes with
many examples.
To access it and run demos compiled from C++ code, type
add vtkit
followed by "set_vtk_<type>_demos", where <type> is one of: common,
graphics, imaging, patented. This will pop open a new window
containing a number of C++ demos (ending with a .cxx extension). To
compile one of these (such as Mace), type "make Mace" within this
window. Eventually a binary "Mace" will be produced which you can run
directly.
You can compile your own code by adapting the demo Makefiles
appropriately.
There are also Tcl demos which you can run by cd'ing to one of the Tcl
demo directories below /mit/vtkit/current/distrib (../examplesTcl,
../graphics/examplesTcl, ../imaging/examplesTcl,
../contrib/examplesTcl, ../patented/ExamplesTcl), and then typing "run
mace.tcl" (and so on).
Some of the demos will fail due to various errors or missing data
files. Some will run but take a long time to start- up to several
minutes is possible. Generally if you see a flat white or colored window
appear with no error messages, the demo is likely to still be starting up.
There is documentation at the author site starting from
http://www.kitware.com/vtkhtml/vtkdata/classes.html, and hardcopy
manuals and a text are available from there as well.
Java libraries have been installed, but no Java examples are available.
Alex
