Kitware Adds ANARI Support to VTK to Simplify Access to Accelerated 3D Rendering Engines

Kitware and NVIDIA have collaborated to integrate ANARI, the open, cross-platform 3D rendering engine API from the Khronos Group, into VTK (Visualization Toolkit). VTK is a cross-platform and feature-rich data analysis and visualization toolkit used in application domains ranging from medical imaging to large-scale scientific visualization. Through this integration, ANARI offers VTK users seamless access to a rich set of hardware-accelerated 3D rendering engines and capabilities. Kitware is also working to expose ANARI in ParaView, their state-of-the-art visualization application built on VTK. Exposing ANARI parameters in the ParaView user interface provides access to the rich world of accelerated 3D rendering engines enabled through the cross-platform ANARI API.