Search for Python

High-performance simulations generate massive datasets—but extracting insight from that data shouldn’t be a bottleneck. ParaView Catalyst integrates analysis and visualization directly into the simulation workflow, delivering in situ processing that eliminates the need for slow, storage-heavy post-processing. The result? You get immediate feedback, streamlined workflows, and new opportunities to steer simulations on the fly. Built […]

This blog documents a major change introduced in ParaView 6.0.0. It also applies to VTK 9.5.0 The ParaView command-line executables pvserver, pvpython and pvbatch now support all three modes of rendering – headless, offscreen, and onscreen in one build. The rendering backend is automatically selected at runtime based upon the system capabilities such as availability of an X server or […]

Python state files in ParaView are a way to create reproducible and editable visualization pipelines. Especially for applications like Catalyst, these state files are intended to be readable, modifiable, and adaptable to different workflows.

We are excited to showcase a collaboration between Openwater and Kitware Inc. to accelerate the development and adoption of Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (LIFU) technology. Combining Openwater’s cutting-edge hardware with Kitware’s expertise in medical software development, we aim to make LIFU accessible to researchers and medical device developers through the OpenLIFU hardware and software suite. Openwater’s […]

Introduction There is increasing demand for powerful, interactive data visualizations directly within web browsers. VTK.wasm is a technology that aims to provide this capability by delivering complex visualization applications without requiring traditional software installations. Not only are these applications portable, but they provide performance at near-native speeds.  In this post, we describe some recent steps […]

CppCon is the premier annual C++ conference, uniting developers from around the world to learn, collaborate, and shape the future of C++. At Kitware, our connection to the C++ community runs deep—our co-founder and Chief Technical Officer, Bill Hoffman, is the original architect of CMake, which has become an essential build system for C++ projects across the globe.

We are pleased to announce the official releases of ParaView 6.0 and the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) 9.5. This occasion marks a strategic evolution in our release methodology, as we are synchronizing the release schedules of ParaView and VTK for the first time. This alignment is designed to deliver significant advantages to our user and developer […]

CMake 4.1.0 available for download

Many scientific and engineering applications are still built as standalone desktop tools. While these solutions may have served teams well in the past, they often present modern-day challenges: they’re difficult to share, hard to maintain, and disconnected from today’s collaborative and distributed workflows.

For a comprehensive list of new features in ParaView 6.0.0, please see the ParaView 6.0.0 release notes hosted on ParaView’s GitLab project page. A selection of notable new features is described on this page. A new default background and color map The default background has changed from “Blue Gray Background” to “Warm Gray Background”. The […]

We previously introduced VolView Insight, a powerful extension of the VolView medical visualization platform, that is designed to integrate imaging studies with real-world clinical data. Built for interoperability and flexibility, Volview Insight allows clinicians and researchers to view medical images, run multimodal AI pipelines, and access relevant patient records, all within a modern and intuitive web […]

The fourth CMake 4.1 release candidate!

Geophysical researchers face a persistent challenge: their multi-dimensional datasets are growing exponentially in both size and complexity, yet the tools for exploring and analyzing this data haven’t kept pace.

A Common Pathology Task In this post, we show how to use foundation models—powerful AI tools trained on vast image datasets—to find and compare structures like glomeruli in kidney tissue. We’ll demonstrate how to integrate these models into HistomicsTK and evaluate their effectiveness for real-world pathology use cases. HistomicsTK is Kitware’s open-source platform for analyzing […]

Recently, we celebrated VTK’s 30th anniversary [1]. As mentioned in that birthday blog post, the original developers felt that a 10-year run would be a smashing success. Astonishingly, not only are we early in the fourth decade of development, but the pace of development seems to be increasing, with users and developers from Kitware and […]

The third CMake 4.1 release candidate!

We introduce VolView Insight, a software platform designed to unify imaging and clinical data into a single interface. For clinicians, it provides an integrated view of images, patient records, and AI-assisted workflows. For researchers and developers, it offers a realistic testbed for deploying multimodal models in a setting that mirrors clinical reality. Building on the […]

The second CMake 4.1 release candidate!