VTK

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.

VTK overview

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$.

VTK Help

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

VTK Dependencies

The default version of the module VTK has the following dependencies:

  • foss/2023a
  • Python/3.11.3-GCCcore-12.3.0
  • SciPy-bundle/2023.07-gfbf-2023a
  • XZ/5.4.2-GCCcore-12.3.0
  • libGLU/9.0.3-GCCcore-12.3.0
  • X11/20230603-GCCcore-12.3.0
  • Qt5/5.15.10-GCCcore-12.3.0

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