I'm trying to get started with pyvtk, the Python interface to the Visualization Toolkit, but there's obviously something important that I haven't figured out after an embarrassingly long morning of googling around. When I run sample pyvtk code (example1.py, from http://cens.ioc.ee/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/python/pyvtk/examples/example1.py), nothing graphical happens, but some text files appear named example1.vtk and example1b.vtk. Guessing that I need to feed one of these to vtk, I tried "vtk <example1.vtk" and "vtk example1.vtk", but those result in (different) error messages that I think mean example1.vtk is not the language that vtk expects. Simply running "vtk" (apparently 4.0) gets a prompt that has no help command, and "man vtk" just tells me it's like "wish", and "man wish" doesn't address what to do with a vtk file.
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