When citing VTK in your scientific research, please mention the following work to support increased visibility and dissemination of our software:

Schroeder, Will; Martin, Ken; Lorensen, Bill (2006), The Visualization Toolkit (4th ed.), Kitware, ISBN 978-1-930934-19-1

For your convenience here is a bibtex entry:

@Book{vtkBook,
  author    = "Will Schroeder and Ken Martin and Bill Lorensen",
  title     = "The Visualization Toolkit (4th ed.)",
  publisher = "Kitware",
  year      = "2006",
  isbn      = "978-1-930934-19-1",
}

To compile the document locally create a python virtual environment and install the required packages. For example in Linux / MacOS:

python -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Use make html in this directory to build the documentation. Open _build/html/index.html in your browser to inspect the result.

The content of this repository is licensed under several licenses. We follow the REUSE specification to indicate which license applies to the files specifically. Here are some general hints:

• The VTK Book content, including all text, figures, and code examples, is licensed under CC BY 4.0

• The website source code used to generate the page structure of the VTK Book website is licensed under Apache-2.0

For more details on the licenses, please have a look at the file headers or associated *.license files. The terms of all used licenses are located in the LICENSES directory.