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The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is open source software for manipulating and displaying scientific data. It comes with state-of-the-art tools for 3D rendering, a suite of widgets for 3D interaction, and extensive 2D plotting capability.
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Surviving the Stack Unwind: A VTK.wasm Story
This blog post details the design of VTK.wasm command modules, which execute like traditional command-line applications but face challenges with event loops in web browsers. The VTK framework uses internal reference counting to prevent premature destruction of objects during application lifecycle management, ensuring persistence through browser interactions while allowing modern C++ practices.
Introducing WebAssembly support in VTK
Introduction There is increasing demand for powerful, interactive data visualizations directly within web browsers. VTK.wasm is a technology that aims to provide this capability by delivering complex visualization applications without requiring traditional software installations. Not only are these applications portable, but they provide performance at near-native speeds. In this post, we describe some recent steps […]
ParaView 6.0 and VTK 9.5: Better Together
We are pleased to announce the official releases of ParaView 6.0 and the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) 9.5. This occasion marks a strategic evolution in our release methodology, as we are synchronizing the release schedules of ParaView and VTK for the first time. This alignment is designed to deliver significant advantages to our user and developer […]