Online References

• http://www.vtk.org/
  Download The Visualiation Tooklit (VTK) open-source visualization software

  • http://vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Obtaining
    Instructions for building VTK from source (uses Git & CMake)

• http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classes.html
  Index of all VTK documentation

• http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx
  A searchable index of VTK Examples

  • http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples

  • http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Tutorials

Reference Books

There is no required textbook for the class. We will be reading relevant articles and research papers that are available online or through the RPI Libraries. Here are some relevant books you may be interested in reviewing, many of which are available in the RPI Libraries.

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Edward Tufte Graphics Press 1983	Envisioning Information Edward Tufte Graphics Press 1990
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative Edward Tufte Graphics Press 1997	Beautiful Evidence Edward Tufte Graphics Press 2006
Information Visualization : Perception for Design Colin Ware Morgan Kaufmann 2004	The Visualization Toolkit Kitware, Inc.
The VTK Users's Guide Kitware, Inc.	Fundamentals of Computer Graphics Peter Shirley A K Peters
OpenGL Programming Guide (the red book)	OpenGL Reference Manual (the blue book)