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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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

We are pleased to announce the release of version 0.7.0 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 number of enhancements to the application and libraries including support for text rendering, a measurement tool, bond-centric manipulation of the […]

Congratulations to our collaborators at the University of Houston, Cullen College of Engineering. Dr. Nicholas Rey, a member of Dr. Badri Roysam’s lab at the University of Houston, is presenting their FARSIGHT toolkit at the European BioImage Analysis Symposium (EuBIAS), Barcelona, Oct 7-11. FARSIGHT is a popular toolkit for medical image analysis, particularly for neuronal […]

Index To the Series 1. Raspberery Pi likes Open Source 2. Cross-Compiling for Raspberry Pi 3. Cross-Compiling ITK for Raspberry Pi 4. Raspberry Pi likes VTK 5. Raspberry Pi likes Node.js   Following on our series exploring the use of the Raspberry Pi, Here we describe how to use Pi Camera.   First: The Hardware […]

VeloView 1.0 Released In September, Kitware and Velodyne LiDAR released VeloView 1.0, an open-source application designed for real-time, 3D visualization and analysis of point cloud data generated by Velodyne’s 3D LiDAR sensors HDL-32E and HDL-64E. The application provides an easy-to-use tool for visualization and processing of Velodyne’s data-rich, 3D LiDAR sensors, supporting live sensor streams […]

It is becoming increasingly difficult to efficiently leverage supercomputers for computational research. There are a variety of factors contributing to this: more concurrency, heterogeneous processing units, relative slow-down of memory bandwidth, and file IO to processing power, etc. This corresponds to a large increase in our ability to crunch numbers with a small increase in […]