# VTK

Mirror of Visualization Toolkit repository

Repository: https://github.com/Kitware/VTK
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vtk
Homepage: https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk
Language: C++
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-08-26T12:13:09+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5972, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3201, forks 1312 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:48.494775+00:00)

## What it is
VTK (Visualization Toolkit) is an open-source C++ library for 3D graphics, image processing, volume rendering, and scientific visualization, with a JavaScript counterpart (vtk-js). It provides advanced algorithms such as surface reconstruction, implicit modeling, and hardware-accelerated volume rendering.

## Use cases
- render 3d scientific data
- volume rendering of medical scans
- process and visualize 3d meshes
- build visualization applications in c++ or python
- surface reconstruction from point clouds
- interactive 3d graphics in the browser with vtk-js

## When to choose
- you need advanced 3D visualization or volume rendering algorithms
- you are building scientific, medical, or engineering visualization software
- you want a mature, widely supported toolkit with cross-platform rendering

## When to avoid
- you only need simple 2D charts or plots
- you want a lightweight game-engine-style renderer rather than a data-visualization pipeline
- you need a small dependency footprint

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: image-processing, graphics, simulation, data-visualization
- domain: graphics, data-visualization, computer-vision
- platform: cpp, cross-platform, windows
- tags: 3d-graphics, volume-rendering, scientific-visualization, mesh-processing, rendering, scientific-computing, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- Kitware/VTK (main) score 77
- Kitware/vtk-js (sdk) score 94

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:48.494775+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:24:48.507841+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Kitware/VTK (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:48.494775+00:00, sha 95c12c238ad3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.