The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an object oriented, high level library that allows one to easily write C++ programs, Tcl, Python and Java scripts that do 3D visualization.
This package contains examples from the VTK source. To compile the C++ examples you will need to install the vtk-dev package as well. Some of them require the libqt4-dev package.
The Python and Tcl examples can be run with the corresponding packages (python-vtk, tcl-vtk).