March 2003

Kitware wins SBIR Phase II award from NSF for higher-order finite element visualization.

Kitware, Inc. has won a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project to address the lack of visualization technology for advanced engineering simulation tools. Such tools routinely depend on interpolation and approximation (basis) functions for a variety of purposes, including modeling geometry via CAD/CAM tools, or for computational techniques such as the finite element method. What distinguishes advanced tools from earlier, less sophisticated tools is their dependence on higher-order basis functions, as compared to the linear functions typical of early tools. In this project Kitware will develop general purpose algorithms to treat with higher-order basis functions. Commercial adaptors to Kitware's open-source VTK, ITK and ParaView products will be licensed to simulation vendors and sold to end-users as commercial plug-ins.

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.