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VTK is open-source software for 3D computer graphics, modeling, image processing, volume rendering, scientific visualization, and 2D plotting.

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VTKFree open-source software · BSD 3-clause licenseFree

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Facts

Website: vtk.org
Price: Free tier
Free trial: No
Charts: VTK supports 2D plots and charts for tabular data, with picking and selection for interactive queries.
Data pipelines: VTK filters transform data through configurable pipelines and dataflow networks.
Data sources: Supported reader/writer file formats include DICOM,BMP,FLUENT,CGNS,and LIDAR formats (among others).
Downloads: The download page offers source releases and Python wheels for Windows, macOS, and Linux; wheels are listed for Python 3.8–3.13.
Founded: 1993
Integrations: VTK interoperates with Python and Matplotlib, and its documentation covers use with Jupyter, C++, CMake, JavaScript, and WebAssembly.
Intended users: The project describes VTK as used in academic and commercial settings and by government institutions.
Interaction: VTK includes 3D widgets, interactors, and interfaces to 2D widget libraries such as Qt.
License: VTK is distributed under the OSI-approved BSD 3-clause License, and the project says it is free to use for any purpose.
Limit: VTK states that it is not FDA approved and that users are responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable rules and regulations.
Maker: VTK’s history page says Kitware, Inc. was founded in 1998 by Ken Martin, Will Schroeder, Lisa Avila, Charles Law, and Bill Hoffman.
Parallel processing: VTK supports distributed-memory processing under MPI and parallelism through vtkSMP and Viskores on many-core and GPU architectures.

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