VTK alternatives and similar libraries
Based on the "Image Processing" category.
Alternatively, view VTK alternatives based on common mentions on social networks and blogs.
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OpenMVG (open Multiple View Geometry)
open Multiple View Geometry library. Basis for 3D computer vision and Structure from Motion. -
OpenImageIO
Reading, writing, and processing images in a wide variety of file formats, using a format-agnostic API, aimed at VFX applications. -
OpenEXR
The OpenEXR project provides the specification and reference implementation of the EXR file format, the professional-grade image storage format of the motion picture industry. -
ITK
Insight Toolkit (ITK) -- Official Repository. ITK builds on a proven, spatially-oriented architecture for processing, segmentation, and registration of scientific images in two, three, or more dimensions. -
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GDCM
Grassroots DICOM read-only mirror. Only for Pull Request. Please report bug at http://sf.net/p/gdcm -
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AVIR
High-quality pro HDR image resizing / scaling C++ library, including a very fast, precise, SIMD Lanczos resizer (header-only C++) -
SAIL
The missing small and fast image decoding library for humans (not for machines) ⛵ https://sail.software -
CxImage
DISCONTINUED. An image processing and conversion library to load, save, display, transform BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, MNG, ICO, PCX, TGA, WMF, WBMP, JBG, J2K images. [zlib] -
FreeImage
A custom distribution of FreeImage, with a CMake-based build system. Used by the Athena Game Framework. -
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FLOP
FLOꟼ - An MIT-licensed image viewer equipped with a GPU-accelerated perceptual image diffing algorithm based on ꟻLIP
InfluxDB - Purpose built for real-time analytics at any scale.
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README
[VTK - The Visualization Toolkit][vtk-banner]
Introduction
VTK is an open-source software system for image processing, 3D graphics, volume rendering and visualization. VTK includes many advanced algorithms (e.g., surface reconstruction, implicit modeling, decimation) and rendering techniques (e.g., hardware-accelerated volume rendering, LOD control).
VTK is used by academicians for teaching and research; by government research institutions such as Los Alamos National Lab in the US or CINECA in Italy; and by many commercial firms who use VTK to build or extend products.
The origin of VTK is with the textbook "The Visualization Toolkit, an Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics" originally published by Prentice Hall and now published by Kitware, Inc. (Third Edition ISBN 1-930934-07-6). VTK has grown (since its initial release in 1994) to a world-wide user base in the commercial, academic, and research communities.
Learning Resources
General information is available at the VTK Homepage.
Community discussion takes place on the VTK Discourse forum.
Doxygen-generated nightly reference documentation is available online.
There is now a large collection of VTK Examples that showcase VTK features and provide a useful learning resource.
Reporting Bugs
If you have found a bug:
If you have a patch, please read the [CONTRIBUTING.md][vtk-contributing] document.
Otherwise, please join the VTK Discourse forum and ask about the expected and observed behaviors to determine if it is really a bug.
Finally, if the issue is not resolved by the above steps, open an entry in the VTK Issue Tracker.
Requirements
In general VTK tries to be as portable as possible; the specific configurations below are known to work and tested.
VTK supports the following compilers:
- GCC 4.8 or newer
- Clang 3.3 or newer
- Apple Clang 5.0 (from Xcode 5.0) or newer
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 or newer
- Intel 14.0 or newer
VTK supports the following operating systems:
- Windows Vista or newer
- Mac OS X 10.7 or newer
- Linux (ex: Ubuntu 12.04 or newer, Debian 4 or newer)
Building
See [build.md][vtk-build] (in Documentation/dev/) for build instructions.
Contributing
See [CONTRIBUTING.md][vtk-contributing] for instructions to contribute.
License
VTK is distributed under the OSI-approved BSD 3-clause License. See [Copyright.txt][vtk-copyright] for details.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the VTK README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.