Important!!
VTK is normally used by other applications within one of our X11 Linux Desktop sessions. Do not attempt to load/run VTK applications over SSH+X11 as this is unsupported and against the use policies of the login nodes.
VTK is a software module available on Comet.
To access VTK on Comet, run module load VTK. This will load the default version of VTK.
An overview of the module information is shown below (module -r spider ^VTK$):
VTK: VTK/9.3.0-foss-2023a
Description:
The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open-source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and
visualization. VTK 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; and
advanced modeling techniques such as: implicit modeling, polygon reduction, mesh smoothing, cutting, contouring, and Delaunay
triangulation.
This module can be loaded directly: module load VTK/9.3.0-foss-2023a
Help:
Description
===========
The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open-source, freely available software system for
3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization. VTK 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; and advanced modeling techniques
such as: implicit modeling, polygon reduction, mesh smoothing, cutting, contouring, and Delaunay triangulation.
More information
================
- Homepage: https://www.vtk.org
If there are multiple versions of VTK listed, then you can load a specific version as follows:
$ module load VTK/version_string
You can find the most up to date information whilst logged on to Comet by running module -r spider ^VTK$.
The module VTK has the following embedded help text (module help VTK):
Description
===========
The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open-source, freely available software system for
3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization. VTK 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; and advanced modeling techniques
such as: implicit modeling, polygon reduction, mesh smoothing, cutting, contouring, and Delaunay triangulation.
More information
================
- Homepage: https://www.vtk.org
The default version of the module VTK has the following dependencies: