The design and implementation of an object-oriented toolkit for 3D graphics and visualization

1 January 1996

conference paper
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

p. 93-100
https://doi.org/10.1109/visual.1996.567752

Abstract

The Visualization Toolkit (vtk) is a freely available C++ class library for 3D graphics and visualization. We describe core characteristics of the toolkit. This includes a description of object oriented models for graphics and visualization; methods for synchronizing system execution; a summary of data representation schemes; the role of C++; issues in portability across PC and Unix systems; and how we automatically wrap the C++ class library with interpreted languages such as Java and Tcl. We also demonstrate the capabilities of the system for scalar, vector, tensor, and other visualization techniques.

Keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
APPLICATION SOFTWARE
COMPUTER INDUSTRY
JAVA
SOFTWARE TOOLS
SOFTWARE LIBRARIES
BUILDINGS
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
OBJECT ORIENTED MODELING

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