VTK

Please note that this application page is referring to the old CentOS software stack which is obsolete and does not work any more with the new Ubuntu setup. You can find an overview on the Ubuntu software stack on this wiki page.

Category

Development, Library, Visualization

Description

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open-source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization. It consists of a C++ class library and several interpreted interface layers including Tcl/Tk, Java, and Python. VTK supports a wide variety of visualization algorithms including scalar, vector, tensor, texture, and volumetric methods, as well as advanced modeling techniques such as implicit modeling, polygon reduction, mesh smoothing, cutting, contouring, and Delaunay triangulation. VTK has an extensive information visualization framework and a suite of 3D interaction widgets. The toolkit supports parallel processing and integrates with various databases on GUI toolkits such as Qt and Tk.

Available versions (Euler, old software stack)

Legacy versions	Supported versions	New versions
	6.1.0	8.1.1

Please note that this page refers to installations from the old software stack. There are two software stacks on Euler. Newer versions of software are found in the new software stack.

Environment modules (Euler, old software stack)

Version	Module load command	Additional modules loaded automatically
6.1.0	module load new gcc/4.8.2 java/1.8.0_31 netcdf/4.3.2 python/2.7.6 qt/4.8.4 vtk/6.1.0	szip/2.1 hdf5/1.8.12 openblas/0.2.13_seq
8.1.1	module load new gcc/4.8.2 open_mpi/1.6.5 java/1.8.0_91 netcdf/4.3.2 python/3.6.1 qt/5.8.0 vtk/8.1.1	szip/2.1 hdf5/1.8.12 openblas/0.2.13_seq

Please note that this page refers to installations from the old software stack. There are two software stacks on Euler. Newer versions of software are found in the new software stack.

License information

BSD license

Links

http://www.vtk.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTK
http://www.kitware.com/opensource/vtk.html
https://github.com/Kitware/VTK