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95469-3 All you need to build state-of-the-art 3D visualization applications! From weather maps to MRIs, from marketing to finance, 3D visualization technology is revolutionizing the way information is delivered. And the revolution has just begun. Breakthrough tools like the Visualization Toolkit (vtk) Release 2.0 make visualization more practical and powerful than ever. This book delivers all you need to start building your own visualization applications: A complete introduction to visualization architectures and image processing algorithms-including essential algorithms for contouring, surface smoothing, cutting, slicing, decimation, and Delaunay triangulation: *An extensive collection of real-world case studies. *A working architecture and software design techniques for applying visualization to business and technical problems. *The complete vtk Release 2.0 software tools-complete C++ class libraries and source code for visualization, plus Tcl-based prototyping libraries and Java bindings...all the software you need for Win95/NT, Solaris, HP-UX, Digital UNIX, and IBM AIX! Learn how to leverage the power of vtk 2.0 to: *Build Web-based 3D visualization applications that take advantage of VRML, Java and Java3D. *Use volume rendering, which allows you to "see into" 3D datasets. *Use vtk's new 2D imaging pipeline to manipulate, display and combine 2D images into 3D datasets for further processing-and much more. Advanced 3D visualization is now practical in an unprecedented range of applications. If you're a C++, Java or Tcl/Tk programmer, you need to understand these tools and technologies. Now's the time - and there's no better place to start than The Visualization Toolkit.
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An Object-Oriented Approach to 3-D Graphics, Second Edition-- All the visualization basics you need to know!-- Take any type of data -- medical, scientific or financial -- and render it in 3D.-- Includes GE's powerful Visualization Toolkit (VTL) 2.0 for Windows 95, Windows NT, Solaris, HP-UX, Digital UNIX and IBM AIX.-- New VTK release even allows you to build 3D Java applets!This is a detailed practical introduction to 3D graphics and one of the leading tools in the field, the Visualization Toolkit (VTK). This new edition has been extensively updated to reflect VTK 2.0, with new coverage of 3D for Web applications, including VRML, Java and Java3D. There is extensive coverage of volume rendering, which allows you to "see into" 3D datasets, much as if you had an X-ray machine. Learn how to use VTK 2.0's new 2D imaging pipeline to manipulate, process and display images, and combine them into 3D datasets for further processing. The book includes new descriptions of important image processing algorithms, such as surface smoothing, cutting, slicing, decimation and Delaunay triangulation. The accompanying CD-ROM contains VTK 2.0 for Windows 95, NT, SGI, Sun, HP, DEC, IBM and other Unix computers. If you are a C++ or Java programmer who wants to learn 3D graphics programming, start right here.
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