Tag: The Source Issue 17

Welcome to the Source Blog – the new digital home for the Source! This new blog, which will replace the Source HTML pages going forward, will enable a much more … Read More

ITK Modularization in ITK 4.0 One of the major undertakings of the upcoming ITK 4.0 release is the modularization of ITK. Modularization is the process by which the many classes … Read More

Eye-Dome Lighting (EDL) is a non-photorealistic, image-based shading technique designed to improve depth perception in scientific visualization images. It relies on efficient post-processing passes implemented on the GPU with GLSL … Read More

What is a computer? There was a time when it was easy to answer this question, a time when a computer was mostly a physical, or hardware, device (see Figure … Read More

One way in which VTK’s API differs from that of other libraries is that all vtkObjectBase-derived classes must be allocated from the heap. This means that we tend to deal … Read More

Many of the projects to which Kitware contributes have recently switched to using the distributed version control system Git as a replacement for older, centralized version control systems such as … Read More

SPIE Medical Imaging The 2011 SPIE Medical Imaging conference was held in Orlando from February 12-18.   Kitware, once again, had a strong showing. Dr. Andinet Enquobahrie was co-host of the … Read More

IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging ConferenceThe IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging conference was held in San Francisco from January 23–27 this year.  This conference is the must-attend event for all aspects of electronic imaging, … Read More