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The Open Chemistry project has been accepted as a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code for a third year! We look forward to welcoming more students than ever as we have extended our umbrella to cover a number of outstanding open source chemistry projects out there. You can check out our GSoC intro […]

If you have ever naively tried to build ParaView with Python wrapping enabled against a virtual environment you have created, and you have been disappointed with the results, then this post is for you.  For example, maybe your custom application depends on ParaView Python wrapping as well as a specific version of Numpy.  You may […]

Saving out rendered results as images or animations is a common step in a typical ParaView visualization workflow. Often one sets up a scene and then uses the Save Screenshot or Save Animation menu options from the File menu to generate these results. In most cases, the generated images match what you are seeing on the screen. If you […]

There is no question that numerical simulation tools have produced a wide range of benefits in the area of modeling and analysis, especially when coupled with high performance computational (HPC) systems. However, the complicated workflow involved in defining a numerical simulation requires a broad understanding of simulation codes and how to use them. Between defining […]

On behalf of the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) Community, we are happy to announce the release of ITK 4.13.0! Download ITK Here are a few selected highlights for this release: ITK is on PyPI: install ITK’s Python wrapping with: pip install itk IsotropicWavelets remote module: isotropic and steerable wavelets in the frequency domain […]

The VTK development team is pleased to introduce VTK 8.1.0. This release continues VTK’s evolution to multithreaded and GPU enabled fine grain parallel processing filters via VTK-m. VTK-m, introduced in VTK 8.0.0, is now bundled with VTK (technically we use a git submodule for it), we’ve made performance improvements to it, and added new algorithms […]

As 2017 comes to a close, many government contractors are working toward the end-of-the-year deadline for compliance with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800-171. NIST 800-171 is a document that specifies how information systems and policies need to be set up in order to protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). […]

We are pleased to announce the release of Tomviz 1.2.1 today, made two weeks after Tomviz 1.2.0 was released. The 1.2.1 release fixes a few minor bugs discovered at the Frontiers of Electron Tomography short course following the workshop at Berkeley Lab where we presented a Tomviz tutorial on Wednesday afternoon. This release was made […]

Don’t worry about the pixel type In previous posts about the Insight Toolkit (ITK), we talked about installing ITK Python packages from PyPI, sharing data between ITK and NumPy, and even create your own ITK module with its Python wrapping automatically generated. This post will use examples from the NumPy post and explain in more […]

A vtk.js rendering of a large-scale oceanic dataset with 5.2 million triangles. Rendering three-dimensional (3D) meshes and volumetric datasets became possible on the web years ago with the introduction of WebGL. Since that time, several libraries have gained popularity by supporting 3D data rendering in the web browser. These libraries often focus on gaming; they […]

Recently, the Insight Toolkit (ITK) was made available in binary Python packages. While these packages make the core high-performance, multi-dimensional image analysis capabilities more accessible in Python, the brilliant researchers in the broader ITK community have additional advanced algorithms to contribute. They can now distribute extensions to the toolkit as Python packages from ITK Modules! […]

Kitware Maps Development of Toolkit for Image and Video Analysis Kitware released version 1.1 of the Kitware Image and Video Exploitation and Retrieval (KWIVER) open-source toolkit before the 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Members of the computer vision team at Kitware appeared at the CVPR industry exposition to accent this […]

Fully coupled multi-component and multi-scale modeling systems such as Regional Earth System Model (RegESM) are used to represent and analyze complex interactions among physical processes. A typical application of RegESM can produce tens of terabytes of raw data. This data determines the resolution of the spatial grid, the length of the simulation and the number […]

NVIDIA Index™ Plug-in for ParaView Gets Updated NVIDIA Index™ is a commercial software that enables the use of graphics processing unit (GPU) clusters for real-time visualization of large volumetric and polygonal datasets. ParaView users became able to try Index™ for volume rendering in ParaView for the first time in 2015. Since then, new efforts have […]

On behalf of the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) Community, we are happy to announce the release of ITK 4.12.2! ITK is an open-source, cross-platform library for multidimensional image analysis. Download ITK This is a patch release that fixes critical issues, regressions, documentation, and compiler support. This release includes better compatibility when building an […]

How do we extract meaningful information from scientific images in spite of ubiquitous noise? Edge-preserving image smoothing removes noise as a pre-processing step for visualization or analysis. A number of edge-preserving image processing filters are available in the Insight Toolkit (ITK), such as the bilateral image filter. An anisotropic diffusion filter that delivers excellent edge-preserving […]

Following the trend started earlier this year, ParaView 5.5 will support the ability to dock the Python shell in the UI. Docking makes it easier to always have easy access to the Python shell for those among us who enjoy writing code as much as clicking on buttons. A thing to note is that while the […]

Recently, a lot of effort has gone into web-based projects that Kitware manages, including: ParaViewWeb, a JavaScript library that developers can employ to build applications that run on the Web and use the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) or ParaView as the backend; vtk.js, a rendering library for high-performance computing; and Visualizer, an application that renders and […]