The X Toolkit: WebGL™ for Scientific Visualization

• XTK is easy, lightweight and fast !
• Native reading of a variety of scientific file formats (see File formats)
• Volume rendering, thresholding and cross-sectional slicing of 3d image data
• Label maps, color tables and surface overlays are supported, as well as Constructive Solid Geometry
• CDash + Google Closure driven build and test system

Demos

Lessons

Download

        Get it right here: xtk.js or include it like this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://get.goXTK.com/xtk.js"></script>

NPM

npm install xtk
# or
yarn add xtk

import 'xtk';

// window.X is now available

Example Usage

// create a new 3d renderer
var r = new X.renderer3D();
r.init();
    
// create a mesh from a .vtk file
var skull = new X.mesh();
skull.file = 'skull.vtk';
    
// add the object
r.add(skull);
    
// .. and render it
r.render();

Check out the live version!

API Documentation

The full documentation of the API is available here.

More information...

...is available at Project X, the X Toolkit wiki system.

Need help?

We use http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/xtk for user support. Please ask and tag ([xtk]) your question there!

Contribute?

Yes, please! See the Developer's Heads Up and the X:Future page.

License

Copyright (c) 2012 The X Toolkit Developers <[email protected]>

The X Toolkit (XTK) is licensed under the MIT License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

Publications

• Hähn D, Rannou N, Ahtam B, Grant PE, Pienaar R: Neuroimaging in the Browser using the X Toolkit. NeuroInformatics, September 2012. Abstract and Poster.
• more..

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