The Visualization Toolkit: An Object-Oriented Approach to 3-D Graphics [With Learn to Build 3D Java Applets with Vtk]

by William Schroeder, Ken Martin, Bill Lorensen

Book Overview

An Object-Oriented Approach to 3-D Graphics, Second Edition-- All the visualization basics you need to know!-- Take any type of data -- medical, scientific or financial -- and render it in 3D.--... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0139546944
• ISBN13: 9780139546945
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 645 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.3" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Powerful Toolkit

I started to use the companion free software "visualization toolkit" back to the first edition of this book. My goal was to write a Windows application called "3D Groundwater Explorer" for the 3D Visualizaiton of data and results from groundwater flow and contaminant transport simulations. It was a tough time, partly because this book focuses on algorithms and does not explain how to use the Toolkit in details (maybe the Toolkit is too "big" to be explained in details). Despite of the rather high learning curve, the Toolkit provides virtually everything that one might need in creating impressive and informative visualization image. The Visualization Toolkit is a real tremendous accomplishment.

Excellent book on scientific visualization

This book is poorly titled, because it discusses the algorithms and techniques of visualization much more than the use of the Visualization Toolkit software. However, it is a good introduction to scientific visualization, and the free software included on the CD is an extremely powerful and useful tool. However, if you only wish to learn to use the software, The Visualization Toolkit User's Guide would be much more appropriate for you.

Great for understanding visualization algorithms

This book is great for gaining an in-depth understanding of the underlying visualization algorithms used in the Visualization Toolkit. If you would like understand how to use the VTK software, you should purchase The Visualization Toolkit User's Guide. This companion book is updated for each major release of VTK, and contains many detailed examples.

Understanding and programming graphical algorithms!

The book gives you a good overview of the most important modern algorithms in computational geometry and computer graphics. AND: On the CD included you find a professional programming system with implementations of the mentioned algorithms in SourceCode! You can easily extend the system by your own algorithms in C++. Every Researcher who starts to work in this field should read this book and use these implementations.