From graphics-request at octave dot org Tue Sep 21 11:23:33 2004
Subject: Re: octaviz, vtk
From: Jonathan Stickel <jjstickel at sbcglobal dot net>
To: octave help mailing list <help at octave dot org>
CC: graphics at octave dot org
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:21:34 -0700

Y U Sasidhar wrote:
> I came across octaviz a few days ago on this mailing list;
> I got tgz files of both octaviz and vtk. I am using RedHat 8.0. I am not 
> able to use cmake or ccmake ! Where do I get these utilities ?

Here is cmake:

http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Index.html

You can get rpms of cmake and VTK:

http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/vtk/
http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/local/RPMS/i386/

You will indeed need cmake and vtk installed to compile octaviz.  Be 
warned: the current octaviz release requires at least 1GB of memory to 
compile and takes a really long time.  I've just started to help the 
original author (Dragan Tubic) with octaviz, and I understand that there 
will be a new release relatively soon.

For those interested in octaviz, I suggest you first get vtk installed 
and running on your computer.  Try out some of the python examples since 
octaviz uses very similar syntax for octave scripting.  If you can't get 
octaviz-0.2 to compile and can't wait for the next release, email me 
offlist and I can send you an interim release.

Jonathan