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The C++11 standard has plenty of new goodies that make programmer’s life easier without sacrificing rigor. Here is a neat example from the book “The C++ Programming Language” by Bjarne Stroustrup, that in its 4th edition covers the C++11 standard. Found in Page 107,  Section 4.5.3 Stream Iterators. Let’s consider the tasks of: Reading a […]

Ever wondered why opening the Python shell in ParaView for the very first time, or doing "from paraview.simple import *" in pvpython shell makes your disk spin? It's because of the loading of shared libraries and *.py files related to both, ParaView modules as well as Python itself (including optional dependencies such as numpy and […]

Kitware and the VTK team are happy to announce that VTK 6.0.0 is available for download at:  http://www.vtk.org/VTK/resources/software.html 6.0 is the first major release since 5.0 in December 2005. The great extent of refactoring that went into VTK’s pipeline and build system is what makes this a major release. The pipeline changes cleanly separate the […]

ParaView 4.0.1 is now available for download. This release marks the first change in the major version number since 2007. Unlike the change from 2 to 3, however, this release is not a major departure from the 3 series, but marks a milestone in the gradual progression of ParaView UI and framework since 2007. These […]

The VTK 6.0 release candidate stream continues! You can find thesource here: http://vtk.org/VTK/resources/software.html#cand Thank you everyone who tried release candidate 2. In rc2 the community found several bugs related to building and packaging VTK with CMake option selections than were not well tested on the VTK dashboard. There were also issues exposed in ParaView 4.0’s […]

The second stop of our ITK Spring workshop series is University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Cory Quammen from the Computer Science Department of UNC was our local host. We have about 45~50 attendees in total, who are mostly researchers and graduate students from the Biomedical Research Imaging Center, the Biostatistics Department and the […]

The three of us, Matt McCormick, Luis Ibanez and Xiaoxiao Liu, visited the Montreal Neurology Institue (MNI) of  McGill University in Montreal on May 21st and successfully held the ITK workshop and hackathon event with our local host Dr. Louis Collins and his lab from MNI. We had an extraordinary turnout of 70 people attending […]

The ParaView UserVoice page is a place where users of the application can request features, and we pay attention to these requests and try to implement highly desired features when possible. One of the top requests has been for the ability to use LaTeX markup in ParaView text fields to draw mathematical equations as annotations […]

Recently Fabian Lopez of DSS Inc. shared this comprehensive list of VistA-related webinars with the OSEHRA education group. If you’ve been meaning to get acquainted with the VistA electronic health record, this compilation will make it easy! All links here are reposted with permission – thanks Fabian! A Sieve is not only for the Kitchen: […]

Avogadro 1.x had quite a large number of input generators from very humble beginnings. These input generators were designed to be easy to write, and to give a simple path from a structure in Avogadro to something that could be used as an input file in one of many codes. Our basic approach was to […]

Last week, Zack Galbreath and Matt McCormick went to the University of Houston in Texas to deliver an ITK Workshop on May 15th and take part in a hackathon on May 16th.  The event was hosted by Dr. Badri Roysam, PI of the FARSIGHT Toolkit project.  The FARSIGHT Toolkit makes heavy use of ITK and VTK.  […]

Next Thursday, April 25th, Kitware will participate in the 3rd Annual Open Source Festival at the State University of New York at Albany. The event is hosted by the University’s Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), and will run from 11 AM – 8 PM in the Assembly Hall at the SUNY Albany Campus […]

The  benefits of distributed version control systems, such as Git, often stem from complete, local storage of a repository’s history; however, such local storage is not without disadvantages. One problem is the addition of large files into a repository. Even if large files are removed from HEAD, their presence in the history increases storage requirements […]

These days, everyone’s got a mobile device (or several), so why not use them for data visualization? Last month, KiwiViewer 2.0 for iOS was released in the App Store as a free download. KiwiViewer 2.0 is a major upgrade over the previous version. It ships with a newly designed user interface and heaps of exciting […]

National Cancer Informatics Program Open Development Initiative Kitware is collaborating with SAIC-Frederick, Inc. (SAIC-F) to migrate a collection of National Cancer Institute (NCI)-sponsored software projects to an open-source environment in Github. Kitware will play an advisory role in this project and provide NCI and SAIC-F personnel with knowledge, tools, and skills for successfully managing the […]

Kitware and the Insight Development team have released SimpleITK version 0.6.1. The binaries for this release are available for download from Sourceforge and the SimpleITK website (simpleitk.org). Notable improvements in this release include basic support for transformations, interpolator support in the Resample and other filters, over 250 ImageFilters wrapped, binary filter support for comparative operators, […]

We are pleased to announce the first beta release of the Open Chemistry suite of cross platform, open-source, BSD-licensed tools and libraries – Avogadro 2, MoleQueue and MongoChem. They are being released in beta, before all planned features are complete, to get feedback from the community following the open-source mantra of “release early, release often”. […]

Kitware and the Insight Development team are pleased to announce the release of SimpleITK 0.6.1! The binaries for this release are available for download from Sourceforge and the SimpleITK website. Notable improvements in this release include basic support for transformations; interpolator support in the Resample and other filters; over 250 ImageFilters wrapped; binary filter support […]