The Visualization Toolkit User's Guide, Version 4.2 (with CDROM)

Everything you need to install, use, and extend VTK. Detailed examples, installation procedures, developers guide, file format descriptions, how to write imaging and graphics filters, plus data object API details for VTK version 4.2. Includes source code, updated HTML documentation, release notes, data, and PC binaries. The VTK User’s Guide is 324 pages and comes with the VTK CD.

The VTK Users's Guide is a companion text to The Visualization Toolkit text. While The Visualization Toolkit stresses algorithmic and data structure details, the VTK User's Guide stresses how to use the software.

Kitware is a small company founded in 1998 that is dedicated to creating state-of-the-art graphics, visualization, image processing, and software development tools. The Open Source solutions developed at Kitware are used around the world by thousands of scientists and programmers in research, academic and commercial settings.

As recognized leaders in visualization technology, Kitware works with several National Labs to extend VTK for processing huge data on massively parallel systems, and to develop an Open Source scientific visualization application (ParaView). Kitware is one of two primary architects of the National Library of Medicine's Insight Toolkit (ITK) for data segmentation and registration, and Kitware created the cross-platform configuration management tool CMake, which is used in both the VTK and ITK projects.

Kitware employs world-class visualization, graphics, and image processing experts who have presented papers, taught courses, and served on organizational committees for the top conferences in these areas including IEEE Visualization and ACM SIGGRAPH. This guide is part of a series of textbooks published by Kitware covering visualization technologies and software development.