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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. (www.kitware.com) VTK supports a wide variety of visualization algorithms including scalar, vector, tensor, texture, and volumetric methods; and advanced modeling techniques such as implicit modelling, polygon reduction, mesh smoothing, cutting, contouring, and Delaunay triangulation. In addition, dozens of imaging algorithms have been directly integrated to allow the user to mix 2D imaging / 3D graphics algorithms and data.

Learning VTK

If you want to learn how to use or develop VTK, please see Learning VTK

Building VTK

Where can I download VTK?

Where can I download a tarball of the nightly HTML documentation?

How do I build the Doxygen documentation?

Using Git for VTK development

Using Git and MSBuild to build VTK

Setting up a Python Development Environment using Eclipse/Pydev

Build parameters

Making Development Environment without compiling source distribution

Building VTK with Visual Studio

Extending VTK

Where can I get VTK Datasets?

User-Contributed Classes

VTK Coding Standards

VTK Commit Guidelines

VTK Patch Procedure -- merge requests for the current release branch

Extending VTK with Scripts

Projects/ Tools that use VTK

VTK-Based Tools and Applications

What are some projects using VTK?

Troubleshooting

Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

Common OpenGL troubles

Miscellaneous

VTK Related Job Opportunities

VTK 3rd Party Library Patrol

Meeting Minutes

Summary of Changes

VTK 5.0

VTK 5.2

VTK 5.4

VTK 5.6

VTK 5.8

VTK 5.10

VTK 6.0 (pending)

News

Development Process

The VTK Community is upgrading its development process. We are doing this in response to the continuing and rapid growth of the toolkit. A VTK Architecture Review Board VTK ARB is being put in place to provide strategic guidance to the community, and individuals are being identified as leaders in various VTK subsystems.

Have a question or topic for the ARB to discuss about the future of VTK? First, please bring the topic to the VTK developers mailing list. If the issue is not resolved there or needs further planning or direction, you may enter a suggested topic for discussion.

Proposed Changes to VTK

VTK NextGen

We have started collecting works in progress as well as future ideas at NextGen. Please add anything you are working on, would like to collaborate on, or would like to see in the future of VTK!

Wrapping

Wrapping Tools

Developers Corner

VTK: [Welcome | Site Map]

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 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. ([http://www.kitware.com www.kitware.com]) VTK supports a wide variety of visualization algorithms including scalar, vector, tensor, texture, and volumetric methods; and advanced modeling techniques such as implicit modelling, polygon reduction, mesh smoothing, cutting, contouring, and Delaunay triangulation. In addition, dozens of imaging algorithms have been directly integrated to allow the user to mix 2D imaging / 3D graphics algorithms and data.
 == Learning VTK ==
-If you are new to VTK, you might want to check out:
+If you want to learn how to use or develop VTK, please see [[VTK/Learning_VTK | Learning VTK]]
-* [[VTK/Tutorials/External_Tutorials|External Tutorials]] - short presentations from VTK users and developers around the world on VTK.
-Once you have done that, the best way to learn VTK in detail may be to actually see/write VTK code. The following resources will help you do just that:
-* [[VTK/Examples|Examples]] - Short code examples demonstrating how many of the VTK classes can be used.
-* [[VTK/Tutorials|Tutorials]] - Slightly longer than the examples, these tutorials explain concepts and demonstrate more complicated tasks in VTK.
-More resources available to help the user are :
-* [http://kitware.com/products/books/vtkbook.html The VTK Textbook]
-* [http://kitware.com/products/books/vtkguide.html The VTK Users Guide]
-* [http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/ The VTK Doxygen Man Pages]
-* [http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers The VTK Users Mailing List]
-* [[VTK FAQ|Frequently asked questions (FAQ)]]
-==Administrative Topics==
+== Building VTK ==
-=== Building VTK ===
 * Where can I [http://vtk.org/get-software.php download VTK]?
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 * [[VTK/Git|Using Git for VTK development]]
+* [[VTK/GitMSBuild|Using Git and MSBuild to build VTK]]
+* [[VTK/PythonDevelopment|Setting up a Python Development Environment using Eclipse/Pydev]]
 * [[VTK/Build parameters | Build parameters]]
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 * [[Making Development Environment without compiling source distribution]]
-=== Extending VTK ===
+* [[VTK/Building/VisualStudio | Building VTK with Visual Studio]]
+== Extending VTK ==
 * Where can I get [[VTK Datasets]]?
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 * [[VTK Coding Standards]]
-* [[VTK cvs commit Guidelines]]
+* [[VTK/Commit_Guidelines|VTK Commit Guidelines]]
 * [[VTK Patch Procedure]] -- merge requests for the current release branch
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 * [[VTK Scripts|Extending VTK with Scripts]]
-=== Projects/ Tools that use VTK ===
+== Projects/ Tools that use VTK ==
 * [[VTK Tools|VTK-Based Tools and Applications]]
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 * What are some [[VTK Projects|projects using VTK]]?
-=== Future VTK development ===
+== Troubleshooting ==
-* [[VTK 5.4 Release Planning]]
-* [[Proposed Changes to VTK | Proposed Changes to VTK]]
-=== Troubleshooting ===
 * [[VTK FAQ|Frequently asked questions (FAQ)]]
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 * [[VTK OpenGL|Common OpenGL troubles]]
-=== Miscellaneous ===
+== Miscellaneous ==
 * [[VTK Related Job Opportunities|VTK Related Job Opportunities]]
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 * [[VTK/Meeting Minutes | Meeting Minutes]]
-== Releases ==
+== Summary of Changes ==
-* VTK 5.8: [[VTK/Release580 New Classes | New Classes]]
-== Projects ==
+==== VTK 5.0 ====
-==== For inclusion in VTK 5.0 ====
+* [[VTK/Tutorials/New_Pipeline | New Pipeline]]
 * [[VTKWidgets | VTK Widget Redesign]]
-==== For inclusion in VTK 5.2 ====
+==== VTK 5.2 ====
 * [[VTK/Java Wrapping | VTK Java Wrapping]]
 * [[VTK/Composite Data Redesign | Composite Data Redesign]]
+* [[VTK Shaders | VTK Shaders]]
 * [[VTKShaders | Shaders in VTK]]
 * [[VTK/VTKMatlab | VTK with Matlab]]
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 * [[VTK/Painters | Painters]]
-==== For inclusion in VTK 5.4 ====
+==== VTK 5.4 ====
+* [[VTK 5.4 Release Planning]]
 * [[VTK/Cray XT3 Compilation| Cray XT3 Compilation]]
 * [[VTK/Geovis vision toolkit | Geospatial and vision visualization support ]]
-==== For inclusion in VTK 5.6 ====
+==== VTK 5.6 ====
 * [[VTK/MultiPass_Rendering | VTK Multi-Pass Rendering]]
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 * [[VTK/New CellPicker | New Cell Picker and Volume Picking (start Nov 2010, finish Feb 2010)]]
-==== For inclusion in VTK 5.8 ====
+==== VTK 5.8 ====
 * [[VTK/Polyhedron_Support | Polyhedron cells and MVC Interpolation]]
+* [http://visimp.cs.unc.edu/2010/10/26/reeb-graphs/ Reeb Graphs]
 * [[VTK/Closed Surface Clipping | Clipping of closed surfaces (start Mar 26, 2010, finish Apr 22, 2010)]]
 * [[VTK/Wrapper Update 2010 | New wrappers (start Apr 28, 2010)]]
 * [[VTK/Image Stencil Improvements | Improved image stencil support (start Nov 3, 2010)]]
 * [[VTK/MNI File Formats | MNI file formats]]
+* [[VTK/Release580 New Classes | List of New Classes]]
-==== For inclusion in next VTK release ====
+==== VTK 5.10 ====
-* [[VTK/improved unicode support | Change unicode readers/writers to register as codecs (Proposed)]]
+* [[VTK/improved unicode support | Change unicode readers/writers to register as codecs (finished Oct 29 2010)]]
 * [[VTK/Image Rendering Classes | New image rendering classes (start Dec 15 2010, finish Mar 15 2011)]]
+* [[VTK/Image Interpolators | Image interpolators (start Jun 20 2011, finish Aug 31 2011)]]
+* [[VTK/GSoC | Projects from Google Summer of Code 2011]]
+* [[VTK/Release5100 New Classes | List of new classes in 5.10]]
-==== For inclusion in VTK 6.0 ====
+==== VTK 6.0 (pending) ====
+* [[VTK/VTK_6_Migration_Guide | VTK 6 (pipeline) Migration Guide]]
+* [[VTK/Build_System_Migration | VTK 6 (build system) Migration Guide]]
 * [[VTK/Remove_VTK_4_Compatibility | Remove VTK 4 compatibility layer from pipeline]]
+* [[VTK/Modularization_Proposal | Modularization]]
+* [[VTK/Remove_BTX_ETX | Remove BTX/ETX markers from VTK code]]
+* [[VTK/Remove_vtkTemporalDataSet | Temporal support changes]]
+* [[VTK/Composite_data_changes | Composite data structure changes ]]
+== News ==
-== News ==
 === Development Process ===
 The VTK Community is [[VTK/Managing_the_Development_Process | upgrading its development process]]. We are doing this in response to the continuing and rapid growth of the toolkit. A VTK Architecture Review Board [[VTK/Architecture_Review_Board |VTK ARB]] is being put in place to provide strategic guidance to the community, and individuals are being identified as leaders in various VTK subsystems.
 Have a question or topic for the ARB to discuss about the future of VTK? First, please bring the topic to the [http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/vtk-developers VTK developers mailing list]. If the issue is not resolved there or needs further planning or direction, you may [[VTK/ARB/Meetings#Potential Topics|enter a suggested topic for discussion]].
+* [[Proposed Changes to VTK | Proposed Changes to VTK]]
 ===[[VTK/NextGen|VTK NextGen]]===
 We have started collecting works in progress as well as future ideas at [[VTK/NextGen|NextGen]]. Please add anything you are working on, would like to collaborate on, or would like to see in the future of VTK!
+== Wrapping ==
+* [[VTK/Wrappers | Wrapping Tools]]
+* [[VTK/Java Wrapping|Java]]
+** [[VTK/Java Code Samples|Java code samples]]
+* [[VTK/Python Wrapping FAQ|Python]]
+** [[VTK/Python Wrapper Enhancement|Python wrapper enhancements]]
+* [[VTK/CSharp/ActiViz.NET|CSharp/ActiViz.NET]]
+** [[VTK/Examples/CSharp|CSharp/ActiViz.NET code samples]]
+* [[VTK/CSharp/ComingSoon|CSharp/ComingSoon]]
 == Developers Corner ==
 [[VTK/Developers Corner|Developers Corner]]
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 == External Links ==
-*[http://www.imtek.uni-freiburg.de/simulation/mathematica/IMSweb/ IMTEK Mathematica Supplement (IMS)], the Open Source IMTEK Mathematica Supplement (IMS) interfaces VTK and generates ParaView batch scripts
+ dead link *[http://zorayasantos.tripod.com/vtk_csharp_examples VTK examples in C#] (Visual Studio 5.0 and .NET 2.0)
-*[http://zorayasantos.tripod.com/vtk_csharp_examples VTK examples in C#] (Visual Studio 5.0 and .NET 2.0)
+-->
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