VTK/Tutorials

System Configuration/General Information

• Obtaining VTK using Git
• Typical CMakeLists.txt file
• Typical CMakeLists.txt file for Qt4
• Linux Environment Setup
• Microsoft Windows Environment Setup
• Python environment setup
• Java environment setup
• SQL setup

Basics

• Smart pointers
• vtkIdType
• 3D Data Types - A brief outline of the data types that VTK offers for 3D data storage.
• Non-SmartPointer Template Member Variable
• Extents - A powerful indexing method.
• Geometry & Topology - Demonstrates 0, 1, and 2D topology on a triangle geometry.
• Terminology - What is a mapper? What is an actor? What is a filter? What is a source?
• Field data, cell data, and point data - What are these? When should I use them?

Tutorials

• The New VTK Pipeline- The New Pipeline model and VTK Executives
• Callbacks - Handling events produced by VTK
• vtkInteractorStyle subclass - Handling user events in a render window.
• Widgets
• Saving videos
• Writing VTK files using python
• Geometric mesh quality
• VTK XML Format Details
• VTK Information Keys and their significance
• Composite Datasets in VTK
• Streaming data in VTK
• IMTEK Mathematica Supplement (IMS), the Open Source IMTEK Mathematica Supplement (IMS) interfaces VTK and generates ParaView batch scripts

Wrapping

• Java
  • Java code samples
• Python
  • Python wrapper enhancements

Tutorials for Developers

• New and Revision Macros

External Tutorials

Pratik was nice enough to catalog several external tutorials (from courses, slides, etc around the world) here: External Tutorials