VTK Tutorial
Table of contents:
This tutorial will help you to use both Python and VTK to do powerful visualisations.
Learning VTK
Here follow some main areas covered in the Tutorial.
Introduction
In this introduction you will learn how to master the very basics of VTK using python as script language. Each tutorial includes detailed explanations, code examples as well as exercises.
Reading and Converting Data Files
The tutorials included here describe how to read your own data from files as well as creating vtk files from your data.
Vector Visualizations
Atoms
Atoms In this tutorial you will learn how to make visualization of molecules and atoms.
Animations
Learn how to create realtime animations and animated gifs. Klick on the image to the left to see an example of an animated gif.
Volume Rendering
Volume rendering examples including isosurfaces, shading and cut planes.
Isosurfaces
Surfaces in Volume data can be extracted by setting a threshold (isovalue) and applying a contour filter.
Streamlines
Vector data can be visualized using so called streamlines that follow the vctorial directions from some seed points.
TkInter
This is work in progress.... However, you will see how easy it is to program your own GUI for interaction with your favorite VTK application.
Keywords
Her are some keywords listed alphabetically, which are explained in the tutorial.