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, Alberto Vaccarella, Elena De Momi and Pietro Cerveri describe their work developing an IGSTK-based application to simultaneously manage robotic actuators and multimodal sensors. Matt Turk discusses his use of VTK and CPack to create computational simulations of astrophysical data. Jamie Dyer and Philip Amburn highlight a semester-long seminar taught at Mississippi State which used ParaView to visualize meteorological data. Utkarsh Ayachit and Sébastien Jourdain present a ParaView framework that brings 3D visualization to web browsers. Marcus Hanwell discusses the creation of a new API to render charts in VTK. And Li-Ta Lo and David DeMarle's tutorial shows how to interface VTK with Manta ray tracing to create scene realism.

Editor’s Note..............................................................................1
Recent Releases........................................................................1
IGSTK-based Application for Neurosurgical Robotics......................2
Packaging VTK for Astrophysical Data Analysis Using CPack......... 5
Desktop Visualization of Meteorological Data Using ParaView ........7
ParaViewWeb – Bringing Visualization to the Web .......................10
New Chart API in VTK ..............................................................12
Rendered Realism at (nearly) Real Time Rates........................... 15
Kitware News ......................................................................... 19