On Wednesday, May 6, 2020, Kitware organized an online ParaView Hackathon. It was open to anyone, Kitwarean or not, programmer or not. The objectives of this hackathon were: Cleaning up all the current warnings or issues on the dashboards. Fixing simple outstanding issues. Implementing simple life-improving features. Performing a pass on the issues to close […]

Analyzing Ensembles of Curves with ParaView using the Functional Box Plots and Bag Plots
May 25, 2020
In recent years ParaView has been enriched with several views for the analysis of ensembles of curves. In this post we overview the use of these views, in particular the Functional Boxplot View and the Bag Plot View. Visualizing and understanding ensembles of curves An ensemble of curves presents a first problem of visual clutter, […]

VTK 9.0.0 available for download
May 14, 2020
The VTK development team is pleased to announce that VTK 9.0.0 is available for download. Please use the latest release from our download page: https://vtk.org/download/. Thanks for your support! This major release includes many improvements and fixes to VTK, as well as new features that extend VTK’s utility as a state-of-the-art toolkit for scientific visualization. […]

CMake 3.17.2 available for download
April 28, 2020
We are pleased to announce that CMake 3.17.2 is now available for download. Please use the latest release from our download page: https://cmake.org/download/ Thanks for your support! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes made since CMake 3.17.1: Alexander Grund (3): BoostScanDeps: Fix typo in numpy handling FindBoost: Simplify Boost_VERSION_STRING comparisons FindBoost: Add support for Boost 1.73 Alexandru Croitor (1): […]

Where is your data? “Data” is often one of the most valuable yet neglected elements of a research project or a commercial product. It is often stored on USB drives in employee’s desks and/or analyzed and visualized by awkward sequences of programs that require multiple data format conversions and entirely too much manual interaction. Kitware […]

CMake 3.16.6 available for download
April 10, 2020
We are pleased to announce that CMake 3.16.6 is now available for download. Please use the latest release from our download page: https://cmake.org/download/ Thanks for your support! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes made since CMake 3.16.5: Brad King (4): Makefiles: Fix silencing of nested calls for GNU make 4.3 target_link_libraries: Fix regression in case of $ genex AIX: […]

ITK 5.1 Release Candidate 3 available for download
April 9, 2020
We are happy to announce the Insight Toolkit (ITK) 5.1 Release Candidate 3 is available for testing! :tada: ITK is an open-source, cross-platform toolkit for N-dimensional scientific image processing, segmentation, and registration. ITK 5.1 is a feature release that improves and extends the major ITK 5.0 release. ITK 5.1 includes a NumPy and Xarray filter […]

CMake 3.17.1 available for download
April 9, 2020
We are pleased to announce that CMake 3.17.1 is now available for download. Please use the latest release from our download page: https://cmake.org/download/ Thanks for your support! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes made since CMake 3.16.4: Ben Boeckel (1): ExternalProject: allow `DOWNLOAD_NO_EXTRACT OFF` Brad King (15): Makefiles: Fix silencing of nested calls for GNU make 4.3 […]

You’re making great strides in your AI research using PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, and other Python libraries; but for years you’ve been developing algorithms in C++; and to reach the next level in your AI research, you want to bring those C++ algorithms into your Python scripts. You could spend days/weeks/months re-implementing your C++ algorithms in […]

ITK Community Survey 2019 Summary
March 24, 2020
Since 1999, the Insight Toolkit (ITK) has been revolutionizing the way medical images are explored and analyzed. In addition to providing a robust infrastructure for the dissemination of complex algorithms across different fields, ITK has organically created a vibrant and active community in scientific image analysis. In an attempt to objectively measure the impact of […]

CMake 3.17.0 available for download
March 20, 2020
I am happy to announce that CMake 3.17.0 is now available for download at:https://cmake.org/download/ Documentation is available at:https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.17 Release notes appear below and are also published athttps://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.17/release/3.17.html Some of the more significant changes in CMake 3.17 are: “cmake(1)” gained a “Ninja Multi-Config” generator, which is similar to the “Ninja” generator but can be used to […]

CMake 3.17.0-rc3 is ready for testing
March 12, 2020
I am proud to announce the third CMake 3.17 release candidate.https://cmake.org/download/ Documentation is available at:https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.17 Release notes appear below and are also published athttps://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.17/release/3.17.html Some of the more significant changes in CMake 3.17 are: “cmake(1)” gained a “Ninja Multi-Config” generator, which is similar to the “Ninja” generator but can be used to build multiple configurations […]

ITK 5.1 Release Candidate 2 available for download
March 9, 2020
We are happy to announce the Insight Toolkit (ITK) 5.1 Release Candidate 2 is available for testing! ITK is an open-source, cross-platform toolkit for N-dimensional scientific image processing, segmentation, and registration. ITK 5.1 is a feature release that improves and extends the major ITK 5.0 release. ITK 5.1 includes a NumPy and Xarray filter interface, […]

CMake 3.16.5 available for download
March 4, 2020
We are pleased to announce that CMake 3.16.5 is now available for download. Please use the latest release from our download page: https://cmake.org/download/ Thanks for your support! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes made since CMake 3.16.4: Brad King (5): libarchive: Fix WideCharToMultiByte output buffer size libarchive: Add support for UTF-8 locale on Windows Propagate backtraces from LINK_LIBRARIES through […]

CMake 3.17.0-rc2 is ready for testing
March 2, 2020
I am proud to announce the second CMake 3.17 release candidate.https://cmake.org/download/ Documentation is available at:https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.17 Release notes appear below and are also published athttps://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.17/release/3.17.html Some of the more significant changes in CMake 3.17 are: “cmake(1)” gained a “Ninja Multi-Config” generator, which is similar to the “Ninja” generator but can be used to build multiple configurations […]

Insitu Visualization using Ascent and ParaView
February 24, 2020
Ascent is an in-situ visualization and analysis library for HPC architectures (distributed computing) with support for many-core nodes (such as GPUs) through VTK-m. Ascent enables users to visualize simulation data through actions declared in a json or yaml file. Types of actions include creating images, extracting data, transforming data, evaluating expressions and executing actions based […]

ParaView 5.8.0 Release Notes
February 18, 2020
Major changes made since ParaView 5.7.0 are listed in this document. The full list of issues addressed by this release is available here. New features Rendering enhancements Filter changes Readers, writers, and sources changes Interface improvements Python scripting improvements Miscellaneous bug fixes Catalyst Developer notes New features HyperTreeGrid additions There are several new HyperTreeGrid-related features […]

CMake 3.17.0-rc1 is ready for testing
February 12, 2020
I am proud to announce the first CMake 3.17 release candidate.https://cmake.org/download/ Documentation is available at:https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.17 Release notes appear below and are also published athttps://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.17/release/3.17.html Some of the more significant changes in CMake 3.17 are: “cmake(1)” gained a “Ninja Multi-Config” generator, which is similar to the “Ninja” generator but can be used to build multiple configurations […]
