Main features

Here the main features are listed whereas for a complete list read all the documentation material (examples, wiki, etc...).

VTK features

Exporters

Legacy standard

• Structured Points;
• Structured Grid;
• Unstructured Grid;
• Polydata;
• Rectilinear Grid;
• Field;

XML standard

• serial dataset:
  • Image Data;
  • Polydata;
  • Rectilinear Grid;
  • Structured Grid;
  • Unstructured Grid;
• parallel (partitioned) dataset:
  • Image Data;
  • Polydata;
  • Rectilinear Grid;
  • Structured Grid;
  • Unstructured Grid;
• composite dataset:
  • vtkMultiBlockDataSet.

Importers

The importers are under developing.

Parallel Architectures

Lib_VTK_IO can handle multiple concurrent files and it is \b thread/processor-safe, meaning that it can be safely used into parallel architectures using OpenMP and/or MPI paradigms. Into section Parallel-benchmarks some more details can be found.