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One of the things I really love about working on open-source projects is seeing where people take the things I’ve worked on. The latest example of this that just blew me away was with a CFD code called PHASTA, led by Ken Jansen at UC Boulder. Short for Parallel Hierarchic Adaptive Stabilized Transient Analysis, six […]

On behalf of the Insight Toolkit Community, we are happy to announce the release of ITK 4.7.1! Get it now! This is a patch release that addresses critical issues, regressions, important documentation, and compiler support. The 4.7.1 release fixes improves Visual Studio support, addresses Python wrapping runtime warnings, includes fixes for the ITK Software Guide, […]

VTK 6.2 has entered the release candidate stage. You can find the source, data, and new vtkpython binary packages here:   http://www.vtk.org/VTK/resources/software.html#latestcand   Please try this version of VTK and report any issues to the list or the bug tracker so that we can try to address them before VTK 6.2.0 final.     Some […]

Editors Note: In 2017/2018 Google shut down Project Tango in favor of ARCore. While ParaView is under active development, and Kitware still does a lot of work with point clouds, we no longer have working versions of the Project Tango device APKs referenced in this post. Introduction We use ParaView for many of our our […]

We recently added new functionality to ParaView to support interacting with the view when using pvpython. This is supported as of nightly version (v4.3.1-122-g1a5724d) and will included in the next stable release (version 4.4). Previously, users could not interact with any Render View, or Bar Chart View etc., when running pvpython or pvbatch. While it still doesn't make sense to support interaction when […]

VTK has long evolved beyond just visualization. It offers some amazing functionality that just cannot be found elsewhere. Two examples are the ‘ray-casting’ and, consequentially, ‘ray-tracing’ capabilities provided by the vtkOBBTree class. In this article, I would like to introduce these capabilities and show examples of ray-casting and ray-tracing performed exclusively through Python, a dash […]

Over the past two years, we have been developing Tangelo [1] in the pursuit of rich web applications for solving problems, both old and new. We recently passed 2,000 commits in the repository [2], and Tangelo will soon be ready for prime time. This article aims to inform you more about the technology with a […]

Dr. Hoogs Presents Computer Vision Papers at IEEE Workshop Dr. Anthony Hoogs, Kitware's Senior Director of Computer Vision, presented three papers at the 2014 IEEE Applied Imagery and Pattern Recognition (AIPR) Workshop. The workshop was held in Washington, DC, from October 14 to October 16, 2014. For "Multi-Target Tracking in Video with Adaptive Integration of […]

This is it. My last blog on streaming, at least for a while. Looking back, I have been writing about the VTK pipeline and how it can be leveraged to do cool things since September. This will be a cool topic to wrap this series up with. In the last blog, I demonstrated how to […]

Introduction This is the first in a series of articles that describe how Sphinx has been extended to create a powerful example documentation system, the ITK Sphinx Examples. For previous posts, see Part I: Credits via GitStats Part II: WebGL Visualizations Doxygen is the de facto standard tool for generating documentation from annotated C++ sources, and it […]

Want to learn medical image analysis? Check out material from the following recent undergraduate and graduate courses where the Insight Toolkit (ITK) and the simplified interface to ITK, SimpleITK, were applied. Methods in Medical Image Analysis, University of Iowa This semester long course taught by Hans Johnson is an excellent introduction to medical image analysis and ITK. The course […]

We are taking a quick break from the series of blogs on streaming. Instead, in preparation for a discussion on block-based streaming, I will discuss how you can write multi-block unstructured grid readers and writers in Python using the h5py library. Let’s get right down business. Here is the writer code. import vtk import h5py […]

SimpleITK 0.8.1 is available! Get it now! SimpleITK is a simplified layer built on top of ITK, intended to facilitate its use in rapid prototyping, education and interpreted languages. This patch release updates the ITK version to the newly released 4.7.0. Additionally, this patch contains improved support for CMake 3.0, fixes for compilation issues, the […]

This year, many exciting things happened at Kitware! Here are a few of our most notable releases, announcements, and events. We are looking forward to another great year filled with ground-breaking collaborations and advancements in open-source software! Software Releases CMake 3.1.0 CMake is the cross-platform, open-source build system. It is a family of tools designed […]

  On behalf of the Insight Toolkit community, we are proud to announce that ITK 4.7.0 has been released! Get it now!   The 4.7 release is a major milestone that marks the hard work of many outstanding community members. Congratulations and well done to the 29 contributors to this release. We would especially like […]

This article is part of a series on Tangelo, a Python-supercharged web application framework. The first article, and index, can be found here. It’s a good time to be developing applications for the web. There are many web application frameworks out there, which means lots of choices, which means it’s more likely that the thing you […]

On behalf of the Insight Toolkit community, we are proud to announce that ITK 4.7.0 release candidate 2 has been tagged and is available for testing! Please test the release candidate in the coming days for an imminent release.   To obtain the source code,    git clone http://itk.org/ITK.git  cd ITK  git checkout -q –detach […]

This article is the first in a series on Tangelo, a Python-supercharged web application framework. Other articles in this series: Part 2: The Beauty of Simplicity Over the past two years, we have spent much of our time developing Tangelo [1] in the pursuit of rich web applications for solving problems both old and new. We recently passed 2000 commits […]