ITKv4
October 27, 2010
Ten years ago, the National Library of Medicine initiated a software development program to produce an open-source toolkit for the segmentation and registration of medical images, in particular the Visible Man and Visible Woman data. The outcome of that program was the Insight Toolkit (ITK). From those humble beginnings, ITK is now used in basic […]

VTK Wrapper Overhaul 2010
October 15, 2010
The VTK wrappers received their last major overhaul in 1998 and have done well to serve the VTK community. In recent years, however, the wrappers have started to show some cracks, particularly as new types such as vtkVariant and vtkUnicodeString have been introduced to VTK but have not been made available in the wrappers. One […]

Community Spotlight: Iturribizia on how XC utilizes VTK
October 15, 2010
XC is a program designed at our company, Iturribizia [1], to solve structural analysis problems utilizing a finite element method. The program can solve various types of problems, from simple linear analysis to complex nonlinear simulations. It has a library of finite elements which can be used to modeling various geometries and multiple materials for […]

October 2010: Kitware News Part 2
October 15, 2010
ITKv4 Ten years ago, the National Library of Medicine initiated a software development program to produce an open-source toolkit for the segmentation and registration of medical images, in particular the Visible Man and Visible Woman data. The outcome of that program was the Insight Toolkit (ITK). From those humble beginnings, ITK is now used in […]

October 2010: Kitware News Part 1
October 15, 2010
DARPA Awards Kitware $11 Million for Phase II of VIRAT Program Kitware has received an $11 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to lead Phase II of its Video and Image Retrieval and Analysis Tool (VIRAT) program. Kitware was selected to lead the sole Phase II award based on the success of […]

CMake 2.8.3-rc2 ready for testing!
October 7, 2010
The CMake 2.8.3 release candidate stream continues! You can find the source and binaries here: http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D Since we switched to git, and a new workflow, we’re expecting to do more frequent releases. Because of that, our release candidate phases will be shorter than they have been historically. So, if you want to test this out and […]

ParaView 3.8.1 Released
September 30, 2010
Kitware is pleased to announce the release of ParaView 3.8.1, a patch release over 3.8.0 with a small set of improvements. ParaView now comes HDF5 1.8.5. This enables developers to easily create readers and plugins for ParaView that use newer versions of HDF5. We are now including the C++ and the high level (hl) versions […]

CMake 2.8.3-rc1 ready for testing!
September 15, 2010
I am happy to announce that CMake 2.8.3 has entered the release candidate stage! You can find the source and binaries here: http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D Following is the list of changes in this release. (If you notice something missing please let me know and I will add it to the official release when 2.8.3 is finalized.) Please try this version of […]

ParaView 3.8.1 RC 1 Binaries Now Available
September 14, 2010
The ParaView team is pleased to announce the availability of the ParaView 3.8.1 Release Candidate 1 binaries for download on the ParaView download page. Final binaries should follow shortly. Release Notes: ParaView 3.8.1 is a patch release over 3.8.0 with a a small set of improvements. The following are some noteworthy improvements and fixes. ParaView […]

Kitware Welcomes Nine New Employees, Looking to Hire More
August 24, 2010
Kitware welcomes several new employees to the team: Jacob Becker Jacob joined Kitware’s Computer Vision Group in October 2009 as an R&D Engineer. Jacob received his B.S. in Computer Science and Archaeology from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse (UW-L) in 2001 and his M.S. in Computer Science from RPI in 2009. While at […]

Improvements to Wrapping in VTK
July 2, 2010
I have been working with David Gobbi, a long-standing member of the VTK developer community, and some Kitware developers, on integrating some large changes to the wrapping code used by VTK to generate the Python, Tcl and Java bindings. The majority of these changes were authored by David, who has continued to push in more […]

CMake 2.8.2 available for download
June 28, 2010
On behalf of myself, Ken, Bill, Brad, Alex, Zach and the rest of the CMake team, we are pleased to announce that CMake 2.8.2 is available for download at: http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html Here are the changes for CMake 2.8.2: No changes in CMake 2.8.2 since 2.8.2-rc4. Changes in CMake 2.8.2-rc4 (since 2.8.2-rc3)——————————————–Bill Hoffman (1): Fix for bug […]

CMake 2.8.2 RC 1 ready for testing!
June 15, 2010
I am happy to announce that CMake 2.8.2 has entered the release candidate stage! You can find the source and binaries here: http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/. Following is the list of changes in this release. (If you notice something missing please let me know and I will add it to the official release when 2.8.2 is finalized.) Changes […]

CoProcessing with ParaView
May 18, 2010
With the processing power of supercomputers still rapidly growing, simulation codes that can run on them generate more data at a faster rate. While this growth enables more accurate and/or complex simulations to be run, it also makes examining the results a much more difficult task. A large part of this is due to the […]

ITK 3.18 Now Available for Ubuntu 10.04
May 5, 2010
Thanks to Dr. Paul Novotny ITK 3.18 is now available for Ubuntu 10.04. Ubuntu 10.04 (codenamed the Lucid Lynx) is the latest release of the Ubuntu operating system. As always this Ubuntu packaging includes the WrapITK module for using ITK with Python. Currently, Dr. Novotny creates his own test packages and the developers of the […]

ParaView 3.8
April 5, 2010
Kitware, Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory are proud to announce the release of ParaView 3.8. The binaries and sources are available for download from the ParaView website. This release includes several performance improvements, bug fixes for users, and plenty of new features for plugin and application developers. We have made it easier […]

ParaView 3.6.2 Now Available
January 4, 2010
Kitware, Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Lab are proud to announce the release of ParaView 3.6.2. The binaries and sources are available for download from the ParaView website. ParaView 3.6.2 contains the following new features and improvements: The Python interface has been revamped, an exciting new extension to the Paraview Python interface is […]

2nd Biomedical Visualization Contest Winners
September 29, 2009
Kitware held its 2nd Annual Contest to find the best biomedical visualization made using the freely-available, open-source Visualization Toolkit and the Insight Registration and Segmentation Toolkit. Judging for this contest was completed in a secure online environment and the winners were announced at 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, held September […]
