Previous versions of ParaView supported volume rendering with independent mapping of colors and opacities to different components of a single input data array. However, it was available only for very specific dataset array formats, and it was not straightforward to create those arrays if they did not already exist. Coming in ParaView 5.9, ParaView’s user […]
CMake 3.18.0 available for download
July 15, 2020
I am happy to announce that CMake 3.18.0 is now available for download at: https://cmake.org/download/ Documentation is available at:https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.18 Release notes appear below and are also published athttps://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.18/release/3.18.html Some of the more significant changes in CMake 3.18 are: The “CUDA” language can now be compiled using Clang on non-Windows platforms. Separable compilation is not yet […]
CMake 3.18.0-rc4 is ready for testing
July 10, 2020
I am proud to announce the fourth CMake 3.18 release candidate.https://cmake.org/download/ Documentation is available at:https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.18 Release notes appear below and are also published athttps://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.18/release/3.18.html Some of the more significant changes in CMake 3.18 are: The “CUDA” language can now be compiled using Clang on non-Windows platforms. Separable compilation is not yet supported on any platform.This […]
Introduction We have added a new module to the Insight Toolkit (ITK) to perform Structure Preserving Color Normalization on an H & E image using a reference image. The software is available in C++ and is also packaged for Python. H & E (hematoxylin and eosin) are stains used to color parts of cells in […]
CMake 3.18.0-rc3 is ready for testing
July 1, 2020
I am proud to announce the third CMake 3.18 release candidate.https://cmake.org/download/ Documentation is available at:https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.18 Release notes appear below and are also published athttps://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.18/release/3.18.html Some of the more significant changes in CMake 3.18 are: The “CUDA” language can now be compiled using Clang on non-Windows platforms. Separable compilation is not yet supported on any platform.This […]
Controlling ParaView from Jupyter Notebook
June 30, 2020
We are happy to announce the release of a ParaView kernel for Jupyter notebooks [1] [2]! Basically, creating a ParaView Notebook launches the ParaView GUI in background. Then, the whole API of ParaView is available from the Notebook. At this point, it is very similar to the standard Python shell. Below is a demonstration video. […]
Pulse 3.0 Released
June 29, 2020
On behalf of the Pulse Physiology Community, we are pleased to announce that version 3.0 is now available. We have continued to assist companies and universities to integrate Pulse into their projects and product goals. We have worked with these users to improve models and functionality to advance the physiology engine for their needs. The […]
Tomviz 1.9 Released
June 24, 2020
We are pleased to announce the release of Tomviz 1.9 (GitHub release page). This release features improvements for the materials tomography community with support for using TomoPy in an external (to Tomviz) pipeline, such as your system Python or Conda that enables you to install additional modules. A Python addressable pipeline offers editing, running, and […]
CMake 3.18.0-rc2 is ready for testing
June 17, 2020
I am proud to announce the second CMake 3.18 release candidate.https://cmake.org/download/ Documentation is available at:https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.18 Release notes appear below and are also published athttps://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.18/release/3.18.html Some of the more significant changes in CMake 3.18 are: The “CUDA” language can now be compiled using Clang on non-Windows platforms. Separable compilation is not yet supported on any platform.This […]
ITK 5.1.0 available for download
June 10, 2020
We are happy to announce the Insight Toolkit (ITK) 5.1.0 release! ITK is an open-source, cross-platform toolkit for N-dimensional scientific image processing, segmentation, and registration. ITK 5.1.0 is a feature release that improves and extends the major ITK 5.0 release. ITK 5.1.0 includes a NumPy and Xarray filter interface, clang-format enforced coding style, enhanced modern […]
CMake 3.18.0-rc1 is ready for testing
June 9, 2020
I am proud to announce the first CMake 3.18 release candidate.https://cmake.org/download/ Documentation is available at:https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.18 Release notes appear below and are also published athttps://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.18/release/3.18.html Some of the more significant changes in CMake 3.18 are: The “CUDA” language can now be compiled using Clang.This is experimental and still under development. “cmake(1)” gained support for profiling of […]
LidarView temporal camera animations
June 4, 2020
In this post, we will see how to use tools included in LidarView to programmatically generate visualizations of a temporal dataset (a dataset evolving with time, such as a Lidar recording) with a moving camera using ParaView animations and screenshots. Animations in LidarView We can distinguish 2 types of animations in LidarView: In this tutorial, […]
CMake 3.17.3 available for download
May 28, 2020
We are pleased to announce that CMake 3.17.3 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 3.17.2: Andreas Schönle (1): PCH: Fix REUSE_FROM in multi-config generators Ben Boeckel (1): ExternalProject: expose _ep_cache_args_script to the caller Boris Basic (1): FindBoost: […]
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 […]