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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Introduction ParaView Catalyst has yielded some amazing results. Such results include iso-surfacing and generating images with 256K Message Passing Interface (MPI) ranks on Mira at Argonne National Laboratory, as well as computing particle paths and outputting iso-surfaced extracts at 42K cores using Adaptable Input/Output System (ADIOS). The wide variety of outputs that have been obtained […]

The implementation of numerical simulations has led to several benefits for the scientific community, including cost and time savings, improved product performance, and new product design and manufacturing. With high-performance computing (HPC), the potential benefits are significantly greater [1]. For years, the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) and ParaView development teams have been dedicated to providing state-of-the-art […]

Kitware Participates in DARPA Memex Kitware is developing software extensions that aim to address complex search problems common in fields such as security and defense as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Memex program. A key use case of the technology is the ability of law enforcement to discover and address human […]

The VTK development team is pleased to announce that VTK 6.3 has entered the release candidate stage! The official release notes will be made available when the final release occurs in the next few weeks. In the meantime, here is a preview: VTK 6.3 offers new features such as a multithreaded Gaussian splatter class and vtkPlotArea for rendering area (or range) […]

ITK witnessed a major milestone with the release of version 4.8.0. Now, ITK is more accessible to non-C++ programmers and more available on mobile, high-performance computing (HPC), and web-browser platforms. This major milestone was made possible through ITK’s large and active development community. As a memento to those who contributed to the success of ITK […]