The theory and practice of visualization using the VTK Visualization Toolkit software. This textbook describes techniques for scalar, vector, and tensor field visualization, as well as texture-map based and modeling techniques. The book includes such important algorithms as color mapping, marching cubes, vector warping and coloring, polygon decimation and smoothing, streamline generation, modeling with implicit surfaces, boolean textures, hyperstreamlines, Delaunay triangulation, volume rendering and many more. Extensive descriptions of data structures and API's, and a succinct description of computer graphics for visualization are also covered. Each chapter contains complete references and exercises (the book is used in many college-level visualization and graphics courses), and algorithms are demonstrated using working VTK code (updated for VTK version 5 and published by Kitware).
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great for helping with VTK 5.0 and visualization in general,
This review is from: Visualization Toolkit: An Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics, 4th Edition (Hardcover)
This is the recently updated version of this classic book on visualization that has some people confused due to its name. Because it is named "Visualization Toolkit" you might believe it to be a tutorial on VTK 5.0. This is not the case. This version is updated to take advantage of VTK 5.0's capabilities, but it also functions as a very accessible textbook on all kinds of visualization algorithms and their implementation using VTK. In my opinion it is better than textbooks on the subject of information visualization because of its practical stance and number of examples. The table of contents is as follows:
1. Introduction 2. Object-Oriented Design 3. Computer Graphics Primer 4. Visualization Pipeline 5. Basic Data Representation 6. Fundamental Algorithms 7. Advanced Computer Graphics 8. Advanced Data Representation 9. Advanced Algorithms 10. Image Processing 11. Visualization on the Web 12. Applications The sections on object-orientation and basic computer graphics are somewhat abbreviated, so you should already know this material before reading this book and use these sections just as reference and as a refresher. The chapters devoted to algorithms and to visualization are the best chapters. There are programming exercises at the conclusion of each chapter to give you some practice using VTK. I recommend this book to anyone interested in the algorithms of visualization and their implementation using VTK 5.0.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Lots of theory,
This review is from: Visualization Toolkit: An Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics, 4th Edition (Hardcover)
I was disappointed with this book. I'll be honest and say that my intentions were to learn VTK. But I knew going into this book that I would not be learning specifically VTK, rather how to visualize data.
That said, this book seriously lacked in examples. I had hoped to at least gain a basic understanding of VTK from it via examples, but alas, nothing. The book is almost straight theory. While I understand the intentions of this book are not to teach VTK, I don't see you how you can teach Visualization without at least giving the reader some examples, examples which I wrongly assumed would be in VTK. The theory is all good, but as a reader this book gave me no indication of how to implement any of it.
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