March 2001

ActiViz Product Family Introduced

Kitware announced today the release of ActiViz/COM and ActiViz/Tcl, the first new products in the ActiViz embeddable visualization product line.

ActiViz is a family of software products that allow you to embed active visualization tools into documents and applications that support ActiveX controls. Depending on your requirements, you can use Visual Basic, Tcl/Tk, and embeddable ActiveX controls to extend such applications as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Explorer, and Visual Basic. Using ActiViz, you can take advantage of the hundreds of imaging, 3D graphics, and visualization filters available in the VTK (Visualization Toolkit) open-source visualization system.

ActiViz/TCL is an embeddable control that lets you use VTK (the Visualization Toolkit) wrapped with Tcl inside of Microsoft documents. You can either load external Tcl scripts, or build the scripts into the application. The Tcl control can be embedded into Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Explorer documents. ActiViz/Tcl 1.1 is available for free download a 30-day trial application period.

ActiViz/COM is a complete Microsoft COM compatible interface to the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) software system. With ActiViz/COM, users can embed the power of 3D graphics, image processing, volume rendering, and visualization into any Microsoft application supporting embeddable controls. Users can create compelling 3D documents with Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Explorer, and Visual Basic using the VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) scripting language. ActiViz is based on the Visualization Toolkit (VTK), used around the world by research, commercial, and academic institutions. ActiViz/COM 1.1 is available for free download a 30-day trial application period.

Kitware, Inc. is a small, privately held company offering consulting, products, and services in the areas of 3D graphics, visualization, image processing, and volume rendering. Kitware provides support and training for the widely used Visualization Toolkit system. Kitware is also developing other open source and proprietary software including the National Library of Medicine Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit. Kitware is located in the Tech Valley region of New York State.