The Visualization Toolkit: An Object-Oriented Approach to 3-D Graphics (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)

by William Schroeder (Author), Ken Martin (Author), Bill Lorensen (Author)

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Product Description
This Java-built "Visualization Toolkit (VTK)" will enable readers to represent any set of data--medical, scientific, or financial--in 3D. Users will learn to build 3D Java applets with the VTK software on the CD-ROM. The book covers Web applications like VRML, Java, and Java3D.

From the Publisher
The aim of this text is to strike a balance between practice and theory. The book goes beyond description and focuses on applicaton of visualization to real-world problems. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 645 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2nd edition (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0139546944
• ISBN-13: 978-0139546945
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.3 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #305,624 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book on scientific visualization, April 17, 2001

By	R. McCall (Pittsburgh, PA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is poorly titled, because it discusses the algorithms and techniques of visualization much more than the use of the Visualization Toolkit software. However, it is a good introduction to scientific visualization, and the free software included on the CD is an extremely powerful and useful tool. However, if you only wish to learn to use the software, The Visualization Toolkit User's Guide would be much more appropriate for you.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Next to useless if you actually want to learn to use VTK, June 15, 1999

By A Customer

If you're looking for a book to learn to use VTK, this is practically useless. The language is explained only incidentally, and in very little detail. the book mostly concentrates on computer graphics theory (which is done much better in other books) and visualisation, which it treats fairly well.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for understanding visualization algorithms, January 16, 2001

By	Lisa S. Avila "lisaavila" (Clifton Park, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This book is great for gaining an in-depth understanding of the underlying visualization algorithms used in the Visualization Toolkit.

If you would like understand how to use the VTK software, you should purchase The Visualization Toolkit User's Guide. This companion book is updated for each major release of VTK, and contains many detailed examples.