vtkfig

VTK based C++ graphics library for plotting and for data on rectilinear and unstructured grids with an flexible and easy to use API.

Features

• Standard views for scalars, vectors and grids in 2D, 3D:
  • isolines, filled contours
  • plane cuts, isosurfaces
  • quiver plots, stream ribbons
• Duck typing based interface for data input in C++ codes
• Separate rendering thread allowing for handling of changing data managed by the vtkfig::Frame class
• Extensible by implementing derived classes containing vtk rendering pipelines from vtkfig::Figure
• Memory management via std::shared_ptr
• (Emerging) C API
• (Emerging) companion Julia package VTKView.jl based on C API and Julia ccall
• Experimental client-server communication for remote execution
• 3-Clause BSD License (same as vtk)

Further information

• Documentation
• Source
• Installation
• Usage notes
• Architecture notes
• Changes
• Some notes on performance

Contributors

vtkfig started from matplot by Dag Lindbo found on http://na-wiki.csc.kth.se/mediawiki/index.php/Mat_plot_vtk. Numerous online postings by community members, the VTK examples, the doxygen documentation of VTK and sometimes its source code were helpful for developing this code.