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As 2024 comes to a close, we want to take a moment to reflect on a year marked by remarkable achievements and technological strides at Kitware. From transforming environmental monitoring to advancing medical research and training, Kitware’s collaborative efforts have resulted in innovative solutions that positively impact our partners and community. This article highlights some of our most impactful projects and open source tools in 2024 and demonstrates our commitment to solving real-world challenges with cutting-edge technology in the years to come.

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) release planning team is happy to announce that v9.4.0 is now available.  For source, data, documentation, and Python wheel packages, please visit the VTK download page. Detailed release notes are published at https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/-/blob/v9.4.0/Documentation/release/9.4.md Although this is a minor release, many enhancements have been made since v9.3.1. Some of the changes are […]

CMake 3.30.6 available for download

In the world of computational simulations, efficiency and flexibility are crucial. Kitware's open source platform, Computation Model Builder (CMB), is designed to streamline every step of the simulation process, from setting up models to analyzing results. As an example, while OpenFOAM remains a powerful tool for computational fluid dynamics (CFD), integrating it with CMB elevates productivity by providing an intuitive, flexible workflow. With CMB, users can efficiently manage complex simulations, automate tasks, and make adjustments on the fly, all within a cohesive interface. This synergy allows engineers and researchers to focus more on innovation and less on the technical hurdles, ensuring that high-quality modeling doesn't come at the cost of time or ease of use.

As technology advances, it is essential to stay current with industry-standard tools and methodologies. Kitware’s training courses provide developers, researchers, and engineers with hands-on, expert-led instruction in our popular open source platforms. Whether you’re looking to grow your skillset or efficiently leverage new tools, Kitware’s winter courses offer valuable insights and practical experience. And by signing up early, you can save more than $200 on your registration. Spots fill up quickly, so don’t wait!

Following a recent CC-FR webinar High fidelity simulations with OpenRadioss™ & ParaView by Altair and Kitware, this blog post describes an example of workflow to post-process OpenRadioss results with ParaView. OpenRadioss is a free, publicly available FEA software for simulation of impact, shock and highly dynamic events, actively developed by Altair.  The example data is […]

LidarView: One software to read and process them all!  We’ve added to LidarView several new LiDARs from different manufacturers. They can be used in the same way, regardless of the model, to visualize live streams, replay .pcap records and running algorithms. You can even open two different LiDARs at the same time! Here is a […]

As the demand for analyzing vast amounts of geospatial data continues to grow, artificial intelligence (AI) plays a critical role in accelerating this process. Developing AI capabilities requires tools to visualize and validate results, as well as to create annotations that further improve AI models. RDWATCH is one of the latest technological developments in this area—an advanced cloud-ready system designed to streamline machine learning workflows for monitoring, annotating, and visualizing geospatial and georeferenced data.

The third CMake 3.31 release candidate!

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is a widely used open-source solution for desktop post-processing analysis. Even though the library is written in C++, its sophisticated wrapping infrastructure allows developers to build entire visualization applications in Python and Java. Until recently, the python wrapper naively exposed the C++ functions to Python. For example, a C++ member function […]

Creating highly interactive or data-intensive web applications can be challenging, but trame simplifies this process. trame was designed to help developers create rich, desktop-like experiences on the web. It leverages Python, allowing you to build beautiful user interfaces without needing extensive web development knowledge.

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is a widely used open-source solution for post-processing analysis on a desktop. The library is written in C++ but can be used in Python and Java thanks to wrapping infrastructure. A JavaScript library (vtk.js) is also available but lacks the decades of investment and development from which the C++ library benefits. […]

Last year, we introduced Catalyst-ADIOS2, a new Catalyst implementation capable to process simulation data on the fly on a dedicated visualization cluster. If you haven’t read it already, we suggest reading that initial blog post before diving into this one. Catalyst-ADIOS2 enables new in situ workflows (named “in transit”) that process simulation outputs without blocking […]

trame Kitware has created trame [1] to spark creativity and empower developers to construct compelling interactive visual applications accessible directly through web browsers. trame, a Python package, functions as a tool for building robust applications without the need for extensive knowledge in web development. Its remarkable adaptability facilitates the creation of desktop applications, Jupyter tools, […]

Bug fixes made since ParaView 5.13.0 are listed in this document.

As software systems are more complex, the need for an efficient and flexible build system becomes critical. Kitware has extensive experience managing large software build and package systems, which is showcased through our work with the Visualization Toolkit (VTK). VTK is a powerful library for scientific data processing and visualization that originally adopted CMake as a build system in 2000. Since then, VTK has seen several iterations of improvements to the CMake code used to build it. However, in 2019, it underwent a major overhaul that resulted in a more efficient, “modern” build system.

CMake 3.30.4 available for download

On behalf of the Pulse Physiology Community, we are pleased to announce that version 4.3 is now available from our repository.  The Pulse Explorer has also been updated and can assist in developing applications built on this version.  We have continued to support commercial, academic, and government institutions in integrating Pulse into their projects and […]