Note: this is a guest blog from Marco Miani from GEA Computing – Through Numbers, the Earth. Telescoping nesting of subdomains in Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) refers to the capability of the model to use multiple levels of nested grids to represent fine-scale features within larger-scale domains. This allows for a more detailed representation […]

Using delayed load plugins Loading a ParaView plugin can take some time, up to a few seconds for the biggest of plugins. If you use autoload for many of your plugins, especially big ones, you pay the loading time everytime you open ParaView, delaying the opening of ParaView by crucial seconds. What if there was […]

Microscopy & Microanalysis
July 10, 2024
Microscopy and Microanalysis (M&M) is the premier microscopy education and networking event that brings together researchers, academics, and engineers. Kitware is looking forward to participating in the event this year with two presentations and a poster session. There we will be showcasing the capabilities of three of Kitware’s applications – Tomviz, trame, and MultivariateView. Kitware offers professional support for collaborative R&D using these applications, including researching new visualization and analysis techniques, or customizing them to meet your exact needs.


Overview Trame is a relatively new Kitware platform that enables scientists and engineers to develop interactive feature rich web applications in Python without needing a deep knowledge of frontend/backend web development. To enhance Trame’s capabilities further, Kitware and 3rd party developers have been actively working to develop new plugins, offering new features and integration with […]

CMake 3.30.0-rc4 is ready for testing
June 24, 2024
The fourth CMake 3.30 release candidate!

CMake 3.30.0-rc3 is ready for testing
June 14, 2024
The third CMake 3.30 release candidate!

CMake 3.30.0-rc2 is ready for testing
June 12, 2024
The second CMake 3.30 release candidate!

CMake 3.30.0-rc1 is ready for testing
June 7, 2024
The first CMake 3.30 release candidate!

Building VTK with Spack on Windows:
June 6, 2024
Spack in action on Windows In this article Spack on Windows: A New Era in Cross-Platform Dependency Management, we introduced Spack on Windows. In this article we will expand on that and build VTK and one of its examples on Windows using Spack. Installing Spack Installing Spack is as simple as a git clone: And […]

What is the Value of Open Source Software?
June 3, 2024
A recent study came out from Harvard Business School that valued open source software at $9 trillion! They reached this amount by assuming that each company would have to recreate its own version of the open source software. One could argue that if this were the case, there would likely be companies selling licensed versions […]

Introducing the nnU-Net 3D Slicer extension.

ParaView 5.12.1 Release Notes
May 28, 2024
Bug fixes made since ParaView 5.12.0 are listed in this document. The full list of issues addressed by this release is available here. Rendering Filters Readers Writers General Catalyst Build

Diffusion MRI is a remarkable neuroimaging modality, simultaneously capturing brain structure at large scales and small. By sensitizing MRI to the diffusion of water molecules, brain tissue structures can be characterized in a directionally-dependent manner at sub-voxel scales. With microstructure models, diffusion MRI allows us to describe the distribution of neuron arrangements within the imaging voxels. […]

VTK.js v30 Release
May 21, 2024
We are pleased to announce the v30 release of VTK.js! VTK.js provides interactive visualizations running in your web browser for 2D, 3D, and higher-dimensional scientific data, including point clouds acquired as LiDAR data, surface models that represent molecular structures, and AR/VR environments that incorporate volume renderings of medical images. It is freely available as open-source […]

Introducing KWCoco
May 17, 2024
KWCoco is Kitware’s COCO format and Python module that builds on the popular MS-COCO format introduced in the 2014 paper Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context and is supported by the pycocotools Python module. The MS-COCO format was designed to manage the large-scale (>200K) single-image MS-COCO dataset with bounding box, polygon, pixel-mask, and keypoint annotations […]

Digital Pathology & AI Congress
May 7, 2024
May 7-8, 2024 at the San Diego Marriott in La Jolla, California The Digital Pathology & AI Congress brings together researchers and engineers to delve into the cutting-edge advancements and real-world applications of digital pathology. Kitware will be there to share with our colleagues how artificial intelligence and machine learning are revolutionizing clinical research, while […]

Enhancing Software Quality in 3D Slicer: Introducing the SlicerPythonTestRunner Extension
May 6, 2024
Introducing the SlicerPythonTestRunner extension for enhanced development experience.
