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Title: The Visualization Toolkit: An Object-Oriented Approach to 3-D Graphics (2nd Edition) by William Schroeder, Ken Martin, Bill Lorensen ISBN: 0-13-954694-4 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $69.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (7 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Powerful Toolkit
Comment: I started to use the companion free software "visualization toolkit" back to the first edition of this book. My goal was to write a Windows application called "3D Groundwater Explorer" for the 3D Visualizaiton of data and results from groundwater flow and contaminant transport simulations. It was a tough time, partly because this book focuses on algorithms and does not explain how to use the Toolkit in details (maybe the Toolkit is too "big" to be explained in details). Despite of the rather high learning curve, the Toolkit provides virtually everything that one might need in creating impressive and informative visualization image. The Visualization Toolkit is a real tremendous accomplishment.

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book on scientific visualization
Comment: 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.

Rating: 5
Summary: Great for understanding visualization algorithms
Comment: 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.