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vtk the visualization toolkit kitware open source about overview history features license participants logo citation vtk in action image gallery videos kitware applications other applications flavors javascript c net trame web ar and vr resources getting started examples documentation repository and issue tracker community support dashboard services professional support training download vtk support select page leverage the power of vtk by partnering with kitware what it s like to work with us process images and create 3d computer graphics with the visualization toolkit download courses services mailing lists guide and textbook feature request about vtk 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 vtk is part of kitware s collection of supported platforms for software development the platform is used worldwide in commercial applications as well as in research and development for examples please see vtk in action vtk blog posts m m 2026 kitware is pleased to be returning to the microscopy microanalysis m m conference this year we will be exhibiting and hosting a vendor tutorial about the tomviz 3 0 release we also had a platform presentation accepted on our doe phase ii funded open source multivariate visualization work visit us at booth 1222 to learn more or contact our team to schedule a meeting one polydata mapper instead of two measuring vertex pulling on the desktop vtk ships two opengl polydata mappers that do the same job two different ways we maintain both i wrote the second webgl2 gles3 0 mapper back in 2023 due to a need for polydata rendering in vtk wasm using vertex pulling it s called vertex pulling since it s the vertex shader that decides which vertex data to read vs the traditional way where vertex data is supplied automatically via attributes the historical reason for keeping them separate was a performance belief vertex pulling is too slow for the desktop we turned that belief into measurements on a native nvidia gl stack and it does not hold up with a two line change an indexed draw vertex pulling can match the classic interleaved vbo mapper on gpu time across every workload we tried it carries a realistic 4 attribute vertex with no penalty and adds zero cpu overhead per frame the assumption that kept the mappers apart is no longer relevant this post shows the numbers and argues we should merge the two mappers polyhedron processing improvements in vtk polyhedral cells general convex or non convex 3d cells with arbitrary face and vertex counts appear throughout large scale simulation particularly in cfd some solvers produce them as the dual of a tetrahedral mesh others use them as transition cells across refinement boundaries still others build directly on face based polyhedral connectivity as the native primitive several commercial and open source cfd codes have invested in face based arbitrary polyhedral cells as a first class primitive and that investment runs all the way through the pre and post processing pipeline because handling polyhedra well at every stage is non trivial facebook x rss kitware what we do open source privacy notice contact