Kitware releases VTK 5.8.0

September 14th, 2011
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Everyone’s favorite visualization library VTK has just gotten another major upgrade.  The new 5.8 release offers lots of new features including:

  • Improved Unicode Support
  • OpenGL accelerated 2D Charts like Pie Charts & Histograms
  • Support for Polyhedron Cells
  • A new GPU based Mapper for Glyphs
  • Integration of HDF5 1.8.5
  • Much more…
Go hit their site to download it and check it out.

Kitware – News: VTK 5.8.0 Released.

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