vtk
brew install vtkToolkit for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization
License: BSD-3-Clause
Development: Pull requests
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/vtk.json
Formula code: vtk.rb on GitHub
Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:
| macOS on Apple Silicon |
golden gate | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| tahoe | ✅ | |
| sequoia | ✅ | |
| Linux | ARM64 | ✅ |
| x86_64 | ✅ |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 9.7.2 |
| head | ⚡️ | HEAD |
Patches:
| https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/commit/27e558dfa5a5441954d8930f2b6d9ae700c95050 |
Depends on:
| boost | 1.92.0 | Collection of portable C++ source libraries |
| cgns | 4.5.2 | CFD General Notation System |
| double-conversion | 3.4.0 | Binary-decimal and decimal-binary routines for IEEE doubles |
| eigen | 5.0.1 | C++ template library for linear algebra |
| fontconfig | 2.18.3 | XML-based font configuration API for X Windows |
| freetype | 2.15.0 | Software library to render fonts |
| hdf5 | 2.2.0 | File format designed to store large amounts of data |
| jpeg-turbo | 3.2.1 | JPEG image codec that aids compression and decompression |
| jsoncpp | 1.9.8 | Library for interacting with JSON |
| libharu | 2.4.6 | Library for generating PDF files |
| libogg | 1.3.6 | Ogg Bitstream Library |
| libpng | 1.6.59 | Library for manipulating PNG images |
| libtiff | 4.7.2 | TIFF library and utilities |
| lz4 | 1.11.1 | Extremely Fast Compression algorithm |
| netcdf | 4.10.1 | Libraries and data formats for array-oriented scientific data |
| nlohmann-json | 3.12.0 | JSON for modern C++ |
| proj | 9.9.0 | Cartographic Projections Library |
| pugixml | 1.16 | Light-weight C++ XML processing library |
| python@3.15 | 3.15.2 | Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language |
| qtbase | 6.12.0 | Cross-platform application and UI framework |
| qtdeclarative | 6.12.0 | QML, Qt Quick and several related modules |
| sqlite | 3.54.1 | Command-line interface for SQLite |
| theora | 1.2.0 | Open video compression format |
| utf8cpp | 4.2.1 | UTF-8 with C++ in a Portable Way |
| xz | 5.8.4 | General-purpose data compression with high compression ratio |
Depends on when building from source:
| cmake | 4.5.0 | Cross-platform make |
Uses from macOS: expat (since macOS Sequoia), libxml2
Binaries:
vtkParseJava-9.7,
vtkProbeOpenGLVersion-9.7,
vtkWrapHierarchy-9.7,
vtkWrapJava-9.7,
vtkWrapJavaScript-9.7,
vtkWrapPython-9.7,
vtkWrapPythonInit-9.7,
vtkWrapSerDes-9.7,
vtkpython
GitHub Packages downloads:
| Last 30 days | 56,828 |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 3,199,095 |
| Analytics install events (30 days) | 3,045 |
| Downloads / install events (30 days) | 18.7× |
Source: GitHub Packages, fetched 2026-11-13T00:53:46Z. Analytics dates: 2026-10-14 to 2026-11-13. Totals exclude downloads from Bintray before the migration to GitHub Packages. Downloads and install attempts measure different things; the difference does not count analytics opt-outs. Definitions and limitations.
Analytics:
| 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installs | 3,043 | 8,295 | 40,394 |
Installs (--HEAD) | 2 | 3 | 16 |
| Installs on Request | 1,032 | 2,678 | 11,267 |
Installs on Request (--HEAD) | 2 | 3 | 16 |
| Build Errors | 0 |