New VTK Source for Generating Different Cell Types
The linear-edge cell types supported in VTK and ParaView are used all the time and have seen extensive use. While many people are aware of … Read More
Posts tagged "VTK"
Be careful what you grab!
Grabbing a rendered image is a fairly common thing to do in VTK applications. Many do that as follows:
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vtkRenderWindow *renWin = ... .. renWin->Render() vtkNew<vtkWindowToImage> w2i; .. // Let's grab from back buffer as that overcomes // issues with overlapping windows or other UI // components obfuscating the captured image on // certain windowing systems/platforms. w2i->ReadFrontBufferOff(); w2i->Update(); |
This seemingly innocuous code has … Read More
vtkCookieCutter: Cutting planar surfaces with a planar stencil surface in VTK
The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization. VTK consists of a wide … Read More
ITK and VTK as compiler regression test cases
As ITK (Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit) is a foundational library in medical image processing, on which many programs depend (such as 3D Slicer), we … Read More
Kitware and Collaborators Make 1.0 Release of Materials Tomography Platform
Team offers software through open-source download. Kitware worked with researchers to make the first major release of Tomviz, an open-source platform that processes data for … Read More
Updates to 3D Slicer Volumetric Mesh Support
In a previous blog post, the addition of volumetric mesh support to 3D Slicer was announced. In this post, we report two new features to … Read More
Kitware Eases Development of Virtual Reality Applications
With new approaches, open-source software makes data more tangible. Kitware announced that it will introduce two approaches at IEEE Virtual Reality (VR) 2017 that greatly … Read More
Kitware customer highlight: MuriPlan from Xstrahl – A 3D Slicer based radiotherapy treatment planning system
Introduction Kitware provides collaborative research, development, and technology-integration services for companies that work in the medical and biomedical business sectors. As part of a series … Read More
3D Slicer Adds Volumetric Mesh Support
Earlier last week, support for volumetric mesh was integrated in 3D Slicer. The work was initiated, discussed and mostly completed during the National Alliance for … Read More
VTK and ParaView Add Highly Configurable Particle Tracker
Particle trackers and streamlines serve as important tools in multiple scientific domains such as fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, medicine, and biology. Since the creation of the … Read More