Tag: The Source Issue 26

Bender Moves the Visible ManBender, Kitware’s new open-source toolkit for repositioning voxelized anatomical models, was introduced in late April. Bender is used to reposition 3D labelmap models for use in … Read More

MotivationObservations unequivocally show that the global climate is changing, caused over the past 50 years primarily by human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases. The dramatic effects of climate change include increases … Read More

In April, the Open Chemistry team (openchemistry.org) announced the beta release of the suite of cross-platform, open-source tools and libraries: Avogadro 2, MoleQueue, and MongoChem. These three desktop applications can … Read More

In late June, the VTK community released VTK 6.0, the first major release since 5.0 in December 2005! This release includes significant refactoring of VTK’s pipeline and build system. Pipeline … Read More

ParaView 4.0.1 was released in mid-June, marking the first major change in version number since 2007. This release also marks a milestone in the gradual progression of the user interface … Read More

New Avogadro Collaboration featured in the Journal of CheminformaticsThe Avogadro molecular editor, part of the Open Chemistry suite of tools being developed at Kitware, is part of a new collaborative … Read More

We have written about the Open Chemistry project in a previous Source article [1], and MoleQueue [2] in a more recent article. Now we will focus on Avogadro 2, and … Read More

Tomographic reconstruction is at the core of medical imaging and has been an active field of research of the past fifty years. It aims at solving an inverse problem that … Read More

VTK 5.10.0 was tagged on May 12, 2012, with a bug fix release made on October 15. For many months, we worked on the modularization of VTK using a set … Read More

In early June the Insight Toolkit (ITK) team released ITK 4.4.0. Major updates in this release included the addition of two new ImageIO modules: MINC and SCIFO. The MINC ImageIO … Read More