CMake 3.0-rc3 now ready for testing!
March 26, 2014
I am proud to announce the CMake 3.0 third 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 […]

ParaView Catalyst Editions: What Are They?
March 19, 2014
Have you ever used the vtkHyperOctreeLimiter filter in ParaView? As far as I know, I haven’t. I’m not saying it’s not a useful filter, just that it’s not useful to me for what I use ParaView for. For that matter, there’s a bunch of stuff in ParaView that I don’t regularly use. When I’m building […]

SimpleITK 0.8.0 Released
March 18, 2014
Kitware is pleased to announce the release of SimpleITK 0.8.0. SimpleITK is a simplified layer built on top of ITK. By providing binaries for several wrapped languages, it facilitates ITK’s use in rapid prototyping, education, and interpreted languages. The 0.8.0 release includes several improvements to SimpleITK including support for events and command call-backs and support […]

Why is ParaView using all that memory?
March 4, 2014
ParaView is not a small project. It includes over 3 million lines of C and C++ code and 250,000 lines of Python with a smattering of other languages such as FORTRAN, Tcl, and Java (accoring to the wonderful sloccount tool) in its build, and the build has more than 18,000 things to do when Python […]

Automated GUI Testing with CTest/CDash and Sikuli
February 25, 2014
Testing sofware with Graphcical user interfaces (GUIs) can be more challenging than testing command line software. This is because GUIs require a mouse or other human interface system to drive them. Tesing a GUI involves being able to record human interactions and play them back later. There are a variety of tools available for GUI testing, but many […]

Kitware Presents VTK Community Awards
February 5, 2014
Kitware hosted the second VTK hackathon on Tuesday, January 28th, at Kitware’s headquarters in Clifton Park, NY. The hackathon was a follow-up to last February’s very successful “dashathon” event in which the group successfully targeted persistent problems in the regression test suite. The topic of the second hackathon was to increase the test coverage metric, […]

Paraview’s View Settings is moving to the Properties Panel
January 31, 2014
Motivation The View Settings dialogs allow you to set view specific parameters such as background color and type of lighting for a 3D View or font and color of axis labels for a Bar Chart View. These dialogs use their own names and specify their own defaults for view properties. This way of naming properties and setting their […]

VTK 6.1.0 Ready for Release
January 24, 2014
Kitware and the entire VTK team are happy to announce that VTK 6.1.0 is ready for release. VTK 6.1.0 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. VTK continues to evolve to make […]

January 2014 Source: Recent Releases
January 20, 2014
ITK 4.5.0 Released The ITK 4.5 release is a major milestone that marks the hard work of many outstanding community members. Among the major contributions in this release are registrations computed with 32-bit floats, a new edition of the Software Guide, the first release of the wiki examples tarball, and the first release of the […]

CMake, CTest, and CDash at Netflix
January 20, 2014
At the Core Technologies team at Netflix, we develop the application framework and streaming engine used by millions of consumer electronics devices, game consoles, tablets, and phones. With such a diverse array of devices and platforms, we need to make sure our code is lightweight, standards compliant, and portable. As we also produce the SDK […]

ParaView 4.1.0 available for download
January 15, 2014
ParaView 4.1.0 is now available for download. With about 170 issues resolved, this release includes several bug fixes and feature enhancements. For a detailed list of issues resolved, refer to the change log. Some of the notable enhancements in this release are as follows: Redesigned Color Map Editor panel This release introduces a completely designed panel […]

Converting SOFA to CMake
January 15, 2014
A Little SOFA History SOFA is a software project created eight years ago to tackle a seemingly obvious but unaddressed issue: Many scientists and Ph.D. Students in the mechanical simulation field had to regularly reinvent the wheel. Collision detection, FEM simulation, and contact solver are some of the many common algorithms that have been rewritten […]

ClimatePipes: User-Friendly Data Access, Manipulation, Analysis & Visualization of Community Climate Models and Geospatial Datasets
January 9, 2014
Recently, we (Kitware & NYU Poly) presented ClimatePipes at the AGU Fall Meeting 2013 and received very positive feedback from the community. The overarching goals of ClimatePipes are: – Enable users to explore real-world questions related to climate change. – Provide open source tools for data access, analysis, and visualization. – Facilitate collaboration by enabling […]

The ITK Software Guide Reboot
January 8, 2014
Importance For quite some time, the ITK Software Guide has been an extremely valuable resource for those adventurers that wish to delve into the exciting world of medical image analysis. At over 700 pages, the Software Guide is a tome that many graduate students have held near and dear for its broad coverage of medical […]

Simplifying Using MPI with ParaView
January 6, 2014
Historically, the biggest barrier to using ParaView for most beginners is getting their data into ParaView. While ParaView supports a wide variety of file formats, new formats are created all the time. Additionally, existing formats may become popular enough that they warrant the development of customized readers in order to load the data into ParaView. […]

Detailed ITK 4.5 Release Features
January 6, 2014
This past month, ITK 4.5.0 was released! Below is the introduction, new documentation, and new features sections of the release notes. Introduction The 4.5 release is a major milestone that marks the hard work of many outstanding community members. Among the major contributions in this release are registrations computed with 32-bit floats, a new edition […]

Avogadro 2 0.7.2 Released
December 23, 2013
We are pleased to announce the release of version 0.7.2 of the Avogadro 2 application and libraries. The new version’s source and binaries are available on our website or on SourceForge. The release features a few bug fixes after the recent 0.7.1 release, such as a Python interpreter path path fix, and some improvements with […]

matplotlib View coming in ParaView 4.1
December 16, 2013
matplotlib is a Python module that can be used to make publication-quality plots. We have recently integrated matplotlib into ParaView as a new type of view called a “Python View”. This new view will be available in the ParaView 4.1 release. Below is a screenshot of the new Python View (right) next to a 3D rendering […]
