The Visualization Toolkit (VTK): Rewriting the rendering code for modern graphics cards

被引：34
作者：
Kitware, Inc, 28 Corporate Drive, Clifton Park [1 ]
NY
12065, United States
机构：
[1] Kitware, Inc, 28 Corporate Drive, Clifton Park, 12065, NY
来源：
SoftwareX | / 9-12期
基金：
美国国家卫生研究院;
关键词：
Data analysis; Scientific data; Toolkit; Visualization;
D O I：
10.1016/j.softx.2015.04.001
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摘要：
The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open source, permissively licensed, cross-platform toolkit for scientific data processing, visualization, and data analysis. It is over two decades old, originally developed for a very different graphics card architecture. Modern graphics cards feature fully programmable, highly parallelized architectures with large core counts. VTK's rendering code was rewritten to take advantage of modern graphics cards, maintaining most of the toolkit's programming interfaces. This offers the opportunity to compare the performance of old and new rendering code on the same systems/cards. Significant improvements in rendering speeds and memory footprints mean that scientific data can be visualized in greater detail than ever before. The widespread use of VTK means that these improvements will reap significant benefits. © 2015 The Authors.
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