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The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) development team is happy to announce the eighth major release of VTK. For the source, data, and documentation packages, please visit VTK’s website. Take a look at the VTK wiki for a complete list of API changes in v8.0.0 over the previous version. The big news this time and the reason for the major […]

Kitware disseminates version 8.0 of the Visualization Toolkit, which prioritizes C++11 and data processing for high-performance computing. Kitware passed another turning point for the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) with the release of version 8.0. The release became the first to benefit from C++11 compliant compilers. VTK now officially supports different aspects of C++11 such as default […]

The Python Package Index (PyPI), also known as the Cheese Shop, is the official and most extensive collection of Python packages; there are currently over 110,000 packages on PyPI. The Insight Toolkit (ITK) is a comprehensive open-source toolkit for multidimensional image analysis. ITK’s Python wrapping is now readily installable from any standard CPython installation via […]

ParaView 5.4.0 is now available for download. Please see the full list of issues addressed by and features added to this release. Major highlights in this release include: New Color Legend A new color legend fixes numerous bugs in the previous version and includes additional advances: Nicer automatic labels at nice values that require fewer […]

Kitware distributes toolkit packages in multiple formats. Kitware issued links to the 4.12 release of the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) on the ITK website. Python wheel packages served as a pillar of the release. With Python bindings, developers can use all ITK functions in Python. “Accessible computational methods enable researchers to reproduce advanced […]

  How do you build your C/C++ software with ninja-like speed? Use the Ninja build system! And now, like CMake, you can install Ninja from Python!  python -m pip install --upgrade pip  python -m pip install ninja CMake can generate Ninja build files whether on Windows, macOS, or Linux. The Ninja build system evaluates build […]

Chris Kotfila, Aashish Chaudhary, Petr Votava, Doruk Ozturk, Andrew Michaelis In the first blog post about GeoNotebook, we discussed the needs of GIS data scientists and our approach to solving those needs.  This post will delve deeper into the architecture behind GeoNotebook and how it differs from other online python execution engines for analyzing GIS […]

CMake, the cross-platform build system generator, is now easily installable in Python distributions! This makes creation of cross-platform C/C++ CPython extension modules accessible to many more developers. To install the CMake Python distribution, run:  python -m pip install --upgrade pip  python -m pip install cmake The official package manager for Python, pip, is available with […]

We recently presented at BSides Austin, which is the largest information security conference in Texas with over 450 attendees this year. As part of our new information security program, we are spinning up several open-source projects. Our presentation at BSides Austin focused on the processing of network security data from Bro IDS. Bro is a […]

On behalf of the Insight Toolkit community, we are proud to announce that ITK 4.12 release candidate 1 has been tagged and is available for testing! Please take this opportunity to test the new features in the release candidate. To obtain the source code, use the links: https://github.com/Kitware/ITK/archive/v4.12rc01.zip https://github.com/Kitware/ITK/archive/v4.12rc01.tar.gz   Morphological watershed segmentation of a […]

When a ParaView state file is saved, it saves the absolute paths to the data files that ParaView has loaded. This has made sharing state files annoying since the person loading the state file has to tell ParaView where to look for each data file. Since sharing state files is something many people want to […]

Developed by an international community, ITK collects best-of-breed algorithms for registering, segmenting, analyzing, and quantifying n-dimensional imaging data. The high-quality library facilitates reproducible research, provides a software resource for teaching image analysis, and offers a platform for commercial product development. Following a long history of development, installation of Python bindings is easier than ever. Beta […]

Pseudo-coloring of surfaces and volumes is one of ParaView’s primary methods of displaying data. ParaView’s color legend provides an important link between color and data values, and is a critical component of many visualizations. Over the years, ParaView’s color legend features have expanded to cover numerous usage scenarios, including annotating specific values with text, showing the […]

On behalf of the Insight Toolkit community, we are proud to announce that ITK 4.11.1 has been released! Download it now! This is a patch release that fixes critical issues, regressions, documentation, and compiler support. Of the numerous issues addressed in this release, most notable build support additions include Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7, […]

When we added Axes Grid to ParaView, it was intended to replace a previous implementation of axes annotation called Cube Axes. While the Axes Grid is much superior to the Cube Axes in appearance and functionality, due to a implementation nuance, the Axes Grid only supported showing the grid around all datasets visible in the view. Unlike Cube […]

Kitware and Collaborators Make 1.0 Release of Materials Tomography Platform Kitware worked with researchers to make the first major release of Tomviz, an open-source platform that processes data for materials tomography. Tomviz aligns, reconstructs, segments, visualizes, and analyzes three-dimensional tomographic data through a reproducible pipeline. The release followed the conclusion of Phase II of a […]

Tomviz is an open source, cross platform software application developed to run on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It makes use of Qt 5 for much of its desktop integration, and inherits many of its icons from ParaView which is one of its major dependencies. Over the last few months we have been focusing on a […]

Team offers software through open-source download. Kitware worked with researchers to make the first major release of Tomviz, an open-source platform that processes data for materials tomography. Tomviz aligns, reconstructs, segments, visualizes and analyzes three-dimensional tomographic data through a reproducible pipeline. The release followed the conclusion of Phase II of a Department of Energy Small […]