/sci_vis

BVtk: scientific visualization inside Blender

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BVTK

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK https://www.vtk.org/ ) is an open source library for scientific visualization developed by Kitware. BVTK_Nodes is a Blender Addon allowing to use VTK within Blender. Additional information can be found here http://lorenzocelli.me/BVTK/.

Information

  • Tested version: Blender version 2.79b and VTK library version 8.2.0.
  • License: GPL v3
  • Contributors: Silvano Imboden (s.imboden@cineca.it), Lorenzo Celli, Paul McManus, Tuomo Keskitalo

Goals:

  • verify the feasibility of using VTK inside Blender
  • provide a tools to quickly learn VTK and prototiping VTK pipelines.

Desiderable side effects:

  • provide Blender users with readers for many scientific data format, and techniques to convert them to blender mesh.
  • provide VTK users with hi-quality-rendering and many kind of mesh editing tools.

Installation:

  • verify the prerequisites
  • download BVTK.zip
  • Blender menu > User Preferences > Addons > install from file > choose the zip-archive > activate flag beside BVTK_Nodes