The Source: April 2010

The Kitware Source contains articles related to the development of Kitware projects in addition to a myriad of software updates, news and other content relevant to the open source community. In this issue, Matt McCormick provides a tutorial for using Python pretty-printers to debug ITK. Giorgio Metta, Paul Fitpatrick and Lorenzo Natale explain how the use of CMake improved their development of a humanoid robot. Jean Favre and Jan Vos show how the Navier Stokes Multi Block solver plugin for ParaView supports a wide range of data analysis tasks. Darren Webber provides a tutorial for VTK and ITK MacPorts to get Kitware tools up and running on Darwin-OSX systems. Henjkan Huisman and Pieter Vos share their experience using VTK, ITK and IncrTCL to achieve a robust, versatile, clinical research platform for prostate MR. And Tom Otahal provides a follow-up article along with the locations of integration classes for his October 2009 article on the integration of MATLAB and GNU R with VTK.

Table of Contents

Editor’s Note.................................................................. 1
Recent Releases ............................................................ 1
Visual Debugging of ITK ................................................. 3
The CMaking of a Humanoid ........................................... 7
Paraview in Aerodynamics.............................................. 9
Kitware on Apple OS X: It Just Works, in MacPorts .......... 11
MRCAD for Daily Clinical Analysis of Prostate MR ............ 14
MATLAB® and GNU R Integration with VTK...................... 16
In Progress................................................................... 17
Kitware News ............................................................... 18