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Python tracing in ParaView refers to the ability to generate a Python script corresponding to the actions performed in the ParaView UI. It is arguably the most convenient and easiest way for learning how to script ParaView using Python. The Python tracing infrastructure was revamped considerably for the upcoming ParaView 4.2 release. I'll be covering some […]

We recently added mpi4py as one of the third party libraries in VTK. Below is a quote from the mpi4py explaining what it is. MPI for Python (mpi4py) provides bindings of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard for the Python programming language, allowing any Python program to exploit multiple processors. This package is constructed on […]

This is my second blog about the recently introduced numpy_interface module. In the first one, I gave a brief overview of the module and shared a few teasers. In this one, I will go over the dataset_adapter module which is part of numpy_interface. This module was designed to simplify accessing VTK datasets and arrays from […]

On behalf of the Insight Toolkit community, we are proud to announce that ITK 4.6.0 has been released!   Links to the Sourceforge.net tarballs can be found on the download page.   The 4.6 release is a major milestone that marks the hard work of many outstanding community members. Among the major contributions in this […]

Recently, we introduced a new Python module called numpy_interface to VTK. The main objective of this module is to make it easier to interface VTK and numpy. This article is the first in a series that introduces this module. Let’s start with a teaser. import vtk from vtk.numpy_interface import dataset_adapter as dsa from vtk.numpy_interface import algorithms […]

The ISBI 2015 Conference is soliciting proposals for scientific challenges. The aim of the challenges is to accelerate the pace of research by providing quantitative comparisons of competing approaches to cutting-edge problems, using standardized datasets. Each challenge needs an organizer.  The organizer will be responsible for providing training and testing data, defining the tasks, specifying the […]

Google Tango Data Visualization Kitware announced the release of a tutorial that describes how to use ParaView to extract, process, and visualize data from Google Project Tango development kits. The purpose of the tutorial is to promote faster development of the open Project Tango platform. The tutorial is published on Kitware's blog. Using the plugin […]

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 […]