VISUALISATION TOOLKIT WORSHOP

Dear all,


INVITATION TO ATTEND:

VTK: The Visualization Toolkit Workshop (11 November 2011)
The 2nd International Visual Informatics Conference 2011, IVIC'11


We are pleased to announce that Institute of Visual Informatics and the Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), will be organizing the Visualization Toolkit Workshop on 11 November 2011 in UKM Bangi.



The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is one of the leading open source resource used in the area of data visualization (mainly for scientific & engineering fields). This one day workshop provides an overview of the Visualization Toolkit suitable for new users. It covers the various data types supported by VTK, the pipeline architecture used for processing data, and the rendering framework used to display results. Attendees gain hands on experience through several programming examples presented to highlight key visualization techniques. Among the topics covered in the workshop are techniques from scientific visualization field such as contours, isosurface, volume rendering and flow visualization.

Prerequisites: None, although basic knowledge of TCL scripting language is useful to fully benefit from the programming examples.


Workshop Objectives

The purpose of this workshop is to introduce attendees to the capabilities and features of VTK, and to provide guidance on how they can use VTK in their own applications to start taking advantage of the many visualization techniques now available in VTK.


Who Should Attend

Open to research students, scientists, engineers and anyone who wants to explore an alternative means to analyze their data through visual representation.


Presenters

The speaker for this workshop will be:

• Bahari Belaton, Ph.D., School of Computer Sciences, USM.

• Pan Zheng, Research Officer, School of Computer Sciences, USM. • Tan Joi San, Graduate Research Assistant, School of Computer Sciences, USM.


Workshop Outline

Please find more information from the documents attached.


RegistrationDownload form at
http://www.ivic.org.my/


Complete and return by fax to :

Secretariat IVIC’11
Faculty of Information Science and Technology
The National University of Malaysia
43600 UKM Bangi
Malaysia

Fax: +603-8925 6732

Tel: +603-8921 6745

E-mail: admin@ivic.org.my