Visualization Toolkit (VTK)

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Kitware and Newmont Guide Mining with Virtual Reality

Press Release | Kitware, Newmont | April 19, 2017

Through a combined effort, Kitware and Newmont Mining Corporation (Newmont) visualized ongoing expansion of the Tanami mine in virtual reality (VR). For the work, Kitware added functionality to ParaView, its open-source software solution for high-performance computing (HPC)...

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Kitware Announces Development Of Real-Time Image Guidance To Improve Orthognathic Surgery

Press Release | Kitware | September 24, 2014

Kitware, a leader in the creation and support of open-source software and state-of-the-art technology, is developing real-time image guidance to help address pressing challenges in the orthognathic surgical community...

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Kitware Announces Exascale Exhibition at SC15

Press Release | Kitware | November 10, 2015

To share Kitware’s latest developments in exascale visualization, the company is pleased to announce that it will once again be part of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, better known as Supercomputing (SC). SC15 will be held in Austin, Texas, from November 15 to November 20, 2015. As one of the primary contributors to the open-source Visualization Toolkit (VTK), ParaView, and CMake, Kitware is working closely with customers and collaborators to build the foundation for exascale visualization. 

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Kitware Plans to Spotlight New VTK and ParaView Releases at SC16

Press Release | Kitware | October 25, 2016

On behalf of the development communities for the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) and ParaView, Kitware detailed plans to release VTK 7.1 and ParaView 5.2 in its quarterly newsletter. According to the plans, the communities will finalize new versions of the open-source software solutions in time for The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC16)...

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Kitware Provides Mobile Visualization Support for the Visible Patient Project

Press Release | Kitware | January 31, 2013

Kitware developed mobile solutions to support 3D anatomical modeling project led by IRCAD, the Research Institute Against Digestive Cancer. Read More »

Kitware Receives DARPA Funding to Develop a Visualization Design Environment

Press Release | Kitware | November 27, 2012

The project seeks to provide researchers with a suite of visualization tools for deeper understanding of complex, large-scale data. Read More »

Kitware to Enhance the Visualization Toolkit (VTK)

Press Release | Kitware | May 7, 2013

New NIH funding for the enhancement and refactoring of the Visualization Toolkit will modernize the platform to maintain its position as the industry standard for advanced medical data visualization. Read More »

Kitware To Showcase Advances In HPC And Visualization At SC14

Press Release | Kitware | November 5, 2014

Kitware, a leader in the creation and support of open-source software and state-of-the-art technology, is exhibiting recent work in HPC and visualization at Supercomputing 2014 (SC14) in New Orleans, LA...

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Kitware VTK 6.0.0 Is Available For Download

Dave DeMarle | Kitware Blog | June 24, 2013

Kitware and the VTK team are happy to announce that VTK 6.0.0 is available for download... Read More »

Open Source Dependency Management As A Balancing Act

During my career I have spent a lot of time packaging other people's code, writing my own, and working on large software frameworks. I have seen projects that still haven't released a stable version, never quite hitting 1.0, while others made 1.0 releases within months of beginning development, and then quickly moving on to 2.0, 3.0, etc. There is quite a variance in these release cycles, and this coupled with maintaining large projects can make things difficult. I will go through some of the decisions we have faced in projects I have worked on and the pressures on the project. On the one extreme, users would like to have a stable API that never changes, with dependencies that don't specify a minimum version so that they can choose whatever version works best...

Visualizing Nanotechnology in 3D with Open Source Software

The new open source project tomviz is helping the 3D visualization of nanotechnology...In this user-friendly, cross-platform application, large volumetric datasets can be rendered, animated, sliced, and analyzed. The platform provides a robust graphical interface where multiple datasets, colormaps, and other visualization settings can be used in combination and these objects can be saved as image or animated video files...

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