Hi,<br><br>I'm excited to announce Kitware's first entry in the Apple app store. KiwiViewer is a free, interactive application for exploration of geometric datasets on multi-touch mobile devices. You can learn more about the app at the website here:<br>
<br> <a href="http://kiwiviewer.org/" target="_blank">http://kiwiviewer.org</a><br><br>And here is a press release:<br><br> <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb2011/8/prweb8741699.htm" target="_blank">http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb2011/8/prweb8741699.htm</a><br>
<br>In progress are Android and WebGL versions of KiwiViewer. The
KiwiViewer app uses VTK and a new library we're calling VES: VTK OpenGL
ES rendering toolkit. We look forward to releasing VES open source under the
Apache 2.0 license. With VES we hope to pave the way for development
of VTK applications on mobile and web platforms.<br><br>There's just a few
things that we want to get in order before we open up the repository, so
thanks for being patient! In the meantime, we'd like to hear your
ideas. What sorts of things would you like to do on the mobile and web
platforms?<br>
<br>VES is a standalone repository right now, but in the future we see
it becoming a module in the VTK repository, supplementing VTK's current
OpenGL pipeline. Here's what you can expect in the short term:<br><br>
-We're aiming for an end of October public release<br>-VES will include the KiwiViewer app for Android, iOS, and WebGL, demonstrating how to use VTK in the mobile and web domains<br>-VES will include CMake scripts for cross compiling VTK on Android and iOS platforms (using the vtkmodular repository)<br>
-VES will be an open, fully inclusive effort. We hope the community is
interested in helping us design APIs, and as always patches are welcome
and we can give commit access to community members interested in
collaboration.<br>
<br>Stay tuned for future announcements, and don't hesitate to contact
us with your project ideas! If you're a potential customer who'd
like help moving your current application to a web or mobile platform, you can contact us at <a href="mailto:kitware@kitware.com">kitware@kitware.com</a>.<br><br>Pat<font color="#888888"><br></font>