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In ParaView 4.1, the Python View was capable of generating visualizations using matplotlib only. We recently made some changes to the <Python View to make it possible to use just about any Python library to generate images displayed in the view. The only restriction on Python libraries that can be used for this purpose is that […]

Kitware is not only the lead developer of VTK, but we are also heavy users of it in our open-source applications, commercial consulting projects, and grant-funded research into scientific visaulization, informations, high-performance computing, computer vision, and medical image analysis. Part of our commitment to the success of VTK and our other projects is indicated by the […]

On behalf of the Insight Toolkit community, we are proud to announce that ITK 4.6.0 release candidate 2 has been tagged and is available for testing!   To obtain the source code,      git clone http://itk.org/ITK.git  cd ITK  git checkout -q –detach v4.6rc02   For more details, please see the Git documentation.   Please […]

This week, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin presented an overview of the Slicer extensions usage and contribution process during the afternoon breakout session at the 19th NA-MIC project week. The presentation covered the overall process and included an interactive demonstration of the creation of a Python-based Slicer extension using the new ExtensionWizard that he developed with Kitware’s Matt Woehlke.  The ExtensionWizard greatly simplifies the […]

Kitware will be an active participant at the 13th annual Scientific Computing and Python (SciPy) conference, beginning on Sunday, July 6, 2014. The conference, which will host members of academic, commercial, and government organizations, is dedicated to the “advancement of scientific computing through open source Python software for mathematics, science, and engineering.” Not only is […]

Kitware is pleased to announce the rollout of its Tangelo website. The website follows Kitware’s new design, as seen in the paraview.org and openchemistry.org sites. It features easy access buttons on the main page to download, learn about, and get support for Tangelo. The site also features resources and developer tools menus under which the […]

While searching online for the latest figures of Web Browsers market share, I came accross this interesting figure in the Wikipedia: This is based on data from StatCounter’s report, that can be freely downloaded. As interesting as this figure is, for driving endless geek discussions, the same Wikipedia page held a Gem of much greater […]

Introduction This is the second in a series of articles that describes 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 WebGL is quickly becoming a standard for 3D, GPU-accelerated, pluginless, browser-based visualizations. In this post, we will describe how WebGL […]

Hosted by Lawrence Tarbox and Dan Marcus from Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology of the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, the 9th CTK hackfest was again a great success ! CTK hackers at work in the ERL conference room   During the week, the group of international and enthusiastic hackers addressed a large […]

I am proud to announce the CMake 3.0 fifth release candidate. Sources and binaries are available at:   http://www.cmake.org/files/v3.0/?C=M;O=D Documentation is available at:   http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0 Release notes appear below and are also published at   http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/release/3.0.0.html Some of the more significant features of CMake 3.0 are: Compatibility options supporting code written for CMake versions prior to 2.4 have […]

Update: File names for user and site settings have been corrected. In past versions, the ability to customize ParaView by changing default values for properties of sources, filters, views, and representations was somewhat limited: Relatively few property defaults were modifiable Customized property defaults could only be saved for the user login under which ParaView was run Customized property defaults were not […]

On April 24, 2014, Casey Goodlett attended the Triangle Python Users Group Meeting held in Carrboro, NC. During the meeting, Casey presented a talk on “Python Scripting of ParaView with Application to Point Cloud Processing,” which detailed use cases in point cloud processing to exemplify how Python can be used to implement domain-specific visualization and […]

Studying examples is an excellent way to learn, especially for scientific software.  An example demonstrates explicitly how a concept works or how a given objective can be achieved. When code is coupled with documentation, all the critical details, which are difficult to encapsulate in prose, are immediately evident. Following on the outstanding work by lead David Doria […]

A class of Earth Science students from RPI visited Kitware today with their instructor Steve Signell, who is teaching GIS at RPI, to learn about some of Kitware’s open-source visualization tools and capabilities. During their visit, Aashish Chaudhary talked to the students about Kitware, open source, and ongoing climate and geospatial projects. He showed them a video […]

VTK 6.1.0 Released Kitware and the entire VTK team are happy to announce the release of VTK 6.1.0. The release fixes bugs and adds features on top of the more modular code structure of version 6.0. The source, data, and new vtkpython binary packages can be downloaded from VTK’s website. This release introduces the vtkDax […]

Project configuration in software development is the process of setting up “how” your code will be built, managed, and/or run. It varies depending on the programming language and tools used, such as the IDE. For instance, when programming in C/C++, the project setup usually entails defining what artifacts (e.g., executables, libraries) will be built from […]

This article describes the process of packaging VistA for the Debian Linux distribution. It begins with our rationale and motivation and continues with a discussion on the collaboration process that followed with many members of the open-source community. What is VistA?  The Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) is the most comprehensive Electronic […]

At present, the majority of the climate science community still relies heavily on primitive analysis and visualization tools that are based on the thick (or fat) client application concept. This means that the user must download software to the appropriate machines or hardware where the data resides (e.g., laptops, desktops, or HPC machines). In such […]