<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><p class="MsoNormal">The latest edition of the Kitware Source is <a href="http://kitware.com/products/thesource.html." target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">now available online</a>. The Kitware Software Developer’s Quarterly Newsletter contains articles related to the development of Kitware projects in addition to a myriad of software updates, news and other content relevant to the open source community.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">In this issue, Thomas Otahal, of Sandia National Labs, discusses the integration of MatLab and GnuR with Kitware’s Visualization Toolkit. Pat Marion introduces a new extension to the ParaView Python interface, called Python trace which generates human readable Python scripts that mimic user actions in the GUI. Andrew Maclean, from the Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR), discusses ACFR’s use of Kitware’s open-source toolkits in order to manage a development environment that is cross-platform, supports code reuse, and is responsive to change. Utkarsh Ayachit provides a brief tutorial on adding representation plugins in ParaView. Andrew Maclean, from ACFR, discusses the use of ParaView in a mining research environment. And David Cole provides a tutorial on building external projects with CMake 2.8.</p>
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