November 1998

Kitware to provide VTK support for new volume rendering hardware

Kitware Inc. and Mitsubishi are teaming together to provide a new standard in high performance volume rendering. In 1999 Mitsubish will be releasing their new VolumePRO volume rendering hardware. (see 3D Volume Graphics, the next frontier of advanced graphics.) Kitware will be providing full support for this hardware in VTK as well as providing demonstration code and applications. Historically volume rendering has been too slow for practical use on "real world" data such as a medical CT scan. By combining VTK with the VolumePRO board researchers and doctors will be capable of interactive three-dimensional investigations previously out of reach due to performace limitations or the cost of purchasing a supercomputer.

For more information on the VolumePro graphics board, please visit www.rtviz.com.

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 located in the Tech Valley region of New York State.