The assignments are to be completed using the Visualization Toolkit (VTK). The library is available online, precompiled for Windows and as source code. I strongly recommend that you compile the source code yourself. The easiest way to do so is to use CMake.

WINDOWS

On Windows, CMake produces a project file for Visual Studio. If you do not have Visual Studio already, you can obtain it from Purdue at www.cs.purdue.edu/msdn/. The rest of the installation on Windows is described here: http://vtkblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/install-build-vtk-from-source-in-visual.html.

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LINUX

On Linux, CMake will produce a makefile that can be compiled with gcc / g++.

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MAC OSX

On Mac, the procedure is fundamentally the same as with Linux. However you will need to install the XCode SDK if you have not done so already to obtain a C++ compiler.

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