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Over the last decade, improvements in computer hardware and software have significantly changed the capabilities of simulation technology. New computer power has resulted in the emergence of simulations that are more realistic (treating three-dimensional (3D) geometries instead of two-dimensional (2D) ones), more complex (taking multiphysics and multiscale modeling into account), and more meaningful (calculating the […]

Kitware Turns 18 On March 5, 2016, Kitware turned 18. Throughout its offices in New York, North Carolina, New Mexico, and France, team members took the opportunity to show their Kitware spirit and enjoy some green-and-blue treats. Five colleagues—Will Schroeder, Ken Martin, Lisa Avila, Charles Law, and Bill Hoffman—formed Kitware in 1998 around the Visualization […]

Last week, Ubuntu Linux 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) was released. This long-term support distribution includes packages for the recently released ITK 4.9.0. This post describes how to install ITK packages in Ubuntu and other excellent Linux distributions. Arch The Arch ITK package is maintained by Christopher R. Mullins. To install ITK on Arch Linux: sudo pacman […]

Kitware recently promoted three team members for their dedication to the creation and support of open-source software and state-of-the-art technology. Keith Fieldhouse, Assistant Director of Computer Vision As an assistant director, Keith will focus on vision software architectures. In particular, he will lead the development of the open-source Kitware Image and Video Exploitation and Retrieval […]

Introduction VTK has a collection of parametric surfaces that are both orientable (e.g. Torus) and non-orientable (e.g. Möbius Strip). If you launch ParaView and look in Sources you will see that these surfaces are not there. This article will show you how to bring these surfaces into ParaView and how to access these surfaces from […]

On March 28th, the GabFest meeting took place at Stanford University School of Medicine. Kitware helped organize remote attendance at the meeting, which brought together researchers and engineers in medical imaging. Participation was international and included attendees from the United States, Belgium, France, Germany, Colombia, and Spain. The meeting provided a forum to brainstorm and […]

ParaView 5.0.1 is now available for download. This is a patch release that addresses some critical issues reported in the 5.0.0 release. Since this is a patch release, users using ParaView in client-server configurations can continue to use a  5.0.0 server with a 5.0.1 client if necessary (but not vice versa), although using 5.0.1 server is highly […]

The Girder development team recently made version 1.5 available for download. The improved testing infrastructure featured in the release makes it easier to develop and test downstream external plug-ins. For the OAuth external plug-in, the release established LinkedIn as a provider. The release also added a plug-in for downloading files by their checksums. Beyond the new […]

Any ParaView user (and developer) that is writing Python scripts in ParaView for data processing i.e. for use in Programmable Source or Programmable Filter, will soon notice that there are two ways of importing the vtk package: # Option 1: import the 'vtk' package directly. import vtk # Option 2: Import the 'vtk' package within 'paraview' from paraview import vtk In […]

I am proud to announce that CMake 3.5.0 is now available for download at: https://cmake.org/download/ Documentation is available at: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5 Release notes appear below and are also published at https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5/release/3.5.html Some of the more significant features of CMake 3.5 are: The precompiled Windows binary provided on “cmake.org” is now a “.msi” package instead of an […]

Some things just go together well.   Mom and apple pie.   Bread and butter.   Cheese and wine.   And ITK and VTK.   What is better than just ITK and VTK? ITK / VTK and Python! The recent release of VTK 7.0.0 and ITK 4.9.0 now makes it possible to connect ITK / […]

Webinar details redesigned rendering backend of open-source toolkit. To accompany the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) 7.0 release that occurred at the end of January, Kitware made a recording of its release webinar available to members of the visualization community. Kitware hosted the webinar live on February 3, 2016, to offer exclusive insights into the latest VTK […]

ITK employs extreme programming methodologies in latest development cycle. On behalf of the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) community, Kitware announced the release of ITK 4.9.0. ITK is an open-source software library for processing medical images. The 4.9 release revealed new features, capabilities, and performance enhancements that provide innovations as well as core functionality […]

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) development team is happy to announce the seventh major release of VTK. For the source, data, and vtkpython binary packages, please visit VTK’s website. To learn about the VTK 7.0 Release Webinar, which includes a Q&A session and is scheduled for February 3rd at 2 pm EST, read our blog entry. […]

Some people have been experiencing some problems with the Python interpreter in VTK and ParaView, when initializing their own Python interpreter and using ParaView Python capability as well. A new CMake variable has been added to ParaView, VTK_PYTHON_FULL_THREADSAFE, which will turn on the GIL Ensure/Release on all VTK and ParaView Python calls. If you are […]

Earlier this month, we attended the 3D Slicer 2016 Winter Project Week at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in Cambridge, MA. The project week is a semi-annual event where 3D Slicer users and developers gather to discuss and work collaboratively on open-science solutions for problems that occur […]

Projects will make image analysis solution more accessible to Python community. Kitware recently kicked off two National Library of Medicine (NLM) projects to increase synergy between Python and SimpleITK. The efforts will add support for Python in SimpleITK to improve performance and make the open-source, cross-platform system for image analysis easier to build, package, distribute, […]

ITK 4.9 Released The Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) 4.9 release adds new remote modules, such as Cuberille for smooth generation of meshes from binary segmentation images. ITK 4.9 also enhances the edge-preserving smoothing abilities of the AnisotropicDiffusionLBR module. In addition, itk::Image::GetPixel performs better, as do operations on the itk::VariableLengthVector class. Plus, Python wrapping builds faster with a […]