The Visualization ToolKit (VTK) is an open source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization used by thousands of researchers and developers around the world. VTK consists of a C++ class library, and several interpreted interface layers including Tcl/Tk, Java, and Python. VTKEdge is built along side VTK to provide additional functionality. VTKEdge utilizes the VTK pipeline architecture, and VTKEdge classes are generally derived from vtkObject.
ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform application designed to visualize data sets of size varying from small to very large. ParaView runs on distributed and shared memory parallel as well as single processor systems and has been succesfully tested on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and various Unix workstations, clusters and supercomputers. Under the hood, ParaView uses the Visualization Toolkit as the data processing and rendering engine. VTKEdge provides ParaView plugins for several of the advanced algorithms available in VTKEdge.
CMake is a family of tools designed to build, test and package software. CMake is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files. CMake generates native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of your choice. VTKEdge utilizes CMake for the software compilation process.