During the webinar, David DeMarle, a lead developer of VTK at Kitware, discussed the new default OpenGL backend that allows VTK to render larger and more complex visualizations with millions of primitives. The updated backend also increases speed as much as 350 times, reduces the system memory footprint, and provides users with fluid interaction and instantaneous feedback when drawing models, performing molecular and volume rendering, and implementing immersive environments in VTK. Continue reading this press release here.