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Markdown version of the Visualization Toolkit Book - An object Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics
https://github.com/Kitware/vtk-book

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Markdown version of the Visualization Toolkit Book - An object Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/Kitware/vtk-book
• Owner: Kitware
• License: other
• Created: 2023-04-24T18:55:23.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-09-06T12:28:02.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-30T11:44:18.694Z (9 months ago)
• Topics: kitware, vtk
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://book.vtk.org
• Size: 966 KB
• Stars: 21
• Watchers: 7
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: COPYING

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README

          


# VTK Book

[![Documentation Status](https://readthedocs.org/projects/vtk-book/badge/?version=latest)](https://book.vtk.org/en/latest/?badge=latest)

[![License: CC BY 4.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-CC_BY_4.0-lightgrey.svg)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

## Citing

When citing VTK in your scientific research, please mention the following work to support increased visibility and dissemination of our software:

> Schroeder, Will; Martin, Ken; Lorensen, Bill (2006), The Visualization Toolkit (4th ed.), Kitware, ISBN 978-1-930934-19-1

For your convenience here is a bibtex entry:

```bibtex

@Book{vtkBook,

  author    = "Will Schroeder and Ken Martin and Bill Lorensen",

  title     = "The Visualization Toolkit (4th ed.)",

  publisher = "Kitware",

  year      = "2006",

  isbn      = "978-1-930934-19-1",

}

```

## Build environment

To compile the document locally create a python virtual environment and install the required packages.

For example in Linux / MacOS:

```

python -m venv env

source env/bin/activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

```

Use `make html` in this directory to build the documentation.

Open `_build/html/index.html` in your browser to inspect the result.

## License

The content of this repository is licensed under several licenses. We follow the [REUSE specification](https://reuse.software/) to indicate which license applies to the files specifically. Here are some general hints:

* The VTK Book content, including all text, figures, and code examples, is licensed under `CC BY 4.0`

* The website source code used to generate the page structure of the VTK Book website is licensed under `Apache-2.0`

For more details on the licenses, please have a look at the file headers or associated `*.license` files. The terms of all used licenses are located in the [LICENSES](https://github.com/Kitware/vtk-book/tree/master/LICENSES) directory.