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| ==Purpose==
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| This is a tutorial that will demonstrate how to use ParaView to examine AIM files, and how to use vtkski and python scripting to construct finite element models with complicated coundary conditions.
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| This tutorial was done on OS-X, but should be essentially similar for Windows or Linux, with some minor differences.
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| ==Prerequisites==
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| You'll need ParaView built with the bonelab extensions. You should be able to find in on the server mike . On OS-X, click on this link: [[afp://mike.kin.ucalgary.ca/Data0/Software/ParaView_with_extensions/]] . On Windows, enter \\mike\Data0\Software\ParaView_with_extensions in an Explorer address bar. In either case, you'll need to be on the university network.
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| You'll also need python. Windows users can get it from [[http://www.python.org/]] ; everyone else has it already.
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| ==Background Material==
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| * If you're not familiar with Python, you might want to go through the tutorial [[http://docs.python.org/tutorial/]] .
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| * There are a couple of books on VTK floating about the lab, "The Visualization Toolkit" and "VTK User's Guide".
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| * The API documentation for VTK is at [[http://www.vtk.org/doc/release/5.6/html/index.html]] . This is where you go to find out exactly what classes are available in VTK and exactly how to use them.
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| * The API documentation for vtkski is at [[http://mike.kin.ucalgary.ca/vtkski/index.html]] .
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