Tutorial

WARNING: Under development!

About this page

This page contains materials for the VTK-m tutorial.

This tutorial will be presented on Sunday October 20th at the VIS19 conference in Vancouver, Canada.

There are two options for running code:

1. Building VTK-m on your own machine
2. Running our VirtualBox image with VTK-m installed

Sections below describe how to pursue each of these options.

Additionally, attendees can get the slides HERE.

Download and build VTK-m

Process:

• Download V1.5.0 here.
  • (note the build page assumes you will be accessing the master via a git clone, but we encourage you to use the released version for the tutorial)
• Do not enable the TBB, OpenMP or CUDA support, at least at first.
  • (we stand behind our support for these backends, but it is good to start simple)

In all, your process on Unix/Mac should be something like:

# (download VTK-m 1.5.0)
# tar xvfz vtk-m-v1.5.0.tar.gz
# mkdir build install # out of source build
# cd build
# cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../install \
#       -DVTKm_ENABLE_TESTING:BOOL=OFF \
#       ../vtk-m-v1.5.0
# cmake --build . -j 4

The main instructions to download and build are here. That said, we recommend following the instructions above.

Download tutorial materials

1. [slides] (60+MB)
2. [examples] (0.03MB)
3. [kitchen.vtk data file] (2MB) (on Mac: right-click and "Save Link As")

Build example code

Your process on Unix/Mac should be something like:

# (downloads from above)
# export P=/path/where/you/want/to/place/tutorial/examples
# export D=/path/to/where/your/browser/downloads/files
# cp $D/VTKm_tutorial_examples.tar $P
# cd $P
# tar xvf VTKm_tutorial_examples.tar # places tutorial files in $PWD
# cmake . -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="<path_to_vtkm-installation>/"
# cmake --build . 
# ./tut_io # run 1st example
# ls out_io.vtk # confirms 1st example successfully completed