CMake 3.4.0-rc2 is now ready!
October 21, 2015
I am proud to announce the second CMake 3.4 release candidate. Sources and binaries are available at: https://cmake.org/download/ Documentation is available at: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.4 Release notes appear below and are also published at https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.4/release/3.4.html Some of the more significant features of CMake 3.4 are: * The "if()" command learned a new "TEST" operator […]

ITK at the 2015 ImageJ User & Developer Conference
October 16, 2015
The 5th ImageJ User & Developer conference, held on September 3-4th at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, brought members of the ImageJ community from all around the world to improve software knowledge. The conference was organized by Kevin Eliceiri and team at the LOCI Lab. Presentations, lightning talks, workshops, and posters were a community forum to […]

Recent Releases
October 14, 2015
ParaView 4.4 Released with Version 5.0 Development Announced ParaView 4.4 is now available for download. Among its features, the release offers several brand new color maps, as well as axes annotation with Axes Grid. The release also includes color improvements and selection enhancements with support for interactive selecting and labeling. For additional information, please refer […]

Kitware Introduces Resonant: Open-Source Data and Analytics
October 14, 2015
Kitware is excited to announce Resonant, a new open-source entry point into the data and analytics space. In recent years, there have been many advances in cloud computing, large-scale analytics tools, and Web standards. But, we found a lack of fully open, extensible, deployable, and integrative tools for researchers. To address this issue, we decided […]

ParaView’s Python Programmable Filters in Geophysics
October 14, 2015
With the ability to write data sources and filters in Python code within a ParaView pipeline, we are able to quickly prototype added functionality that our geodynamic scientists are eager to use. This article provides details on the implementation of a selection of these filters as Python programmable filters. Some of the added features are […]

Representing Geometric Models with SMTK
October 14, 2015
Over the last several decades, the introduction of high-performance computing (HPC) simulation practices has enabled scientists to model complex physical systems. It has also resulted in improved products and manufacturing procedures. Today, there are many sophisticated simulation tools and toolkits that are distributed through both commercial and open-source licenses. Solid modeling kernels such as 3D […]

CMake 3.4.0-rc1 is now ready!
October 6, 2015
I am proud to announce the first CMake 3.4 release candidate. Sources and binaries are available at: https://cmake.org/download/ Documentation is available at: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.4 Release notes appear below and are also published at https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.4/release/3.4.html Some of the more significant features of CMake 3.4 are: * The "if()" command learned a new "TEST" operator […]

ITK 4.8.1 has been released!
September 29, 2015
On behalf of the Insight Toolkit Community, we are happy to announce the release of ITK 4.8.1! Get it now! This is a patch release that fixes critical issues, regressions, important documentation, and compiler support. Most importantly, the 4.8.1 release completes fixes for Python 3 wrapping! A number of other Python-related fixes are […]

Kitware at SciPy 2015
September 24, 2015
The SciPy 2015 Conference was another fantastic gathering of open source scientific efforts. Kitware was a proud participant in this years conference, presenting talks and posters, helping with organization, participating at the sprints, and financially contributing as a silver sponsor for the event. The talks and posters Kitware presented at the conference were: […]

ParaView 4.4 available for download
September 14, 2015
ParaView 4.4 is now available for download. This is will be the last major release in the 4.* series. ParaView 5.0 will be released in the near term with a brand new rendering backend. A thorough list of over 160 issues and feature requests addressed by this release can be found here. Some of the […]

New in ParaView: Changes to color/opacity presets
September 14, 2015
In ParaView, color presets provide a way for user to access of palette of predefined color maps that can be used for pseudocoloring datasets using data variables. Management of presets in ParaView has been revamped for ParaView 4.4 There were several major focuses of this new work including making the UI easier to use, adding support […]

VTK 6.3.0
September 10, 2015
The VTK development team is pleased to introduce VTK 6.3.0. VTK 6.3 marks a transition point for VTK, after which development will begin to move to the new capabilities expected in 7 (notably faster rendering and wider adoption of fine-grained parallel filtering) in earnest. As such, the 6.3 release is somewhat a refinement of version […]

VTK 6.3.0 Release Candidate 2 is Ready
August 12, 2015
The VTK development team is happy to announce that VTK 6.3 is continuing along the release candidate stage! Compared to rc1, this release candidate contains various bug and crash fixes. You can find the source, data, and vtkpython binary packages here: http://www.vtk.org/VTK/resources/software.html#releasecandidate Please try this version of VTK, and report any issues to the mailing […]

Tomviz 0.6.0 Released: Tomography for Materials Science
August 3, 2015
We are very pleased to announce the release of tomviz 0.6.0 (article on Opensource.com with some background), just in time for the Microscopy and Microanalysis conference held in Portland, Oregon this year. This release features some significant enhancements including making use of the new OpenGL 2 rendering backend from VTK, improvements to our state file, […]

Kitware Welcomes New Team Members
July 29, 2015
According to Peter Block in Community: The Structure of Belonging, “Possiblity creates something new.” At Kitware, we collaborate with our customers and technical communities to pursue novel ideas that challenge the status quo. As a result, we are driving innovation through open-source software and state-of-the-art technology. Over the past four months, we have witnessed significant […]

3D Slicer featured in "All Things 3D" podcast
July 29, 2015
Kitware is the lead developer of 3D Slicer, an open-source application for medical image visualization, segmentation, and registration. Built using the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK), the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) and CMake, in collaboration with the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing and Isomics, 3D Slicer has become a foundation for cutting-edge research and […]

The Insight Toolkit Kitware is one of the lead developers of the Insight Toolkit (ITK) for medical image segmentation and registration. ITK provides state-of-the art methods and is used in cutting-edge research and commercial products. It is a high-quality and accessible software system through its open-source license and test-driven development methods. As a vehicle for […]

Recent Releases
July 27, 2015
ITK 4.8 Released On behalf of the Insight Toolkit community, we are pleased to announce the release of ITK 4.8.0. This release features a Python-wrapping infrastructure based on CastXML, which works with the latest Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC), Clang, and GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) compilers. The release also brings new remote modules such as BridgeNumPy, […]
