2D Transfer Function Support in GPUVolumeMapper
It is well known that transfer function specification is a crucial task for quality volume rendering, given that transfer functions map original data values to … Read More
Posts tagged "VTK"
Recent Improvements to ParaViewWeb: Local Rendering, Property Management, and More
Recently, a lot of effort has gone into web-based projects that Kitware manages, including: ParaViewWeb, a JavaScript library that developers can employ to build applications … Read More
Evenly Spaced Streamlines 2D
Motivation VTK and ParaView provide visualization of vector fields through streamlines using vtkStreamTracer in VTK or Stream Tracer in ParaView. The ability of streamlines to create … Read More
Version 8.0 of the Visualization Toolkit Assigns New Code Standard
Kitware disseminates version 8.0 of the Visualization Toolkit, which prioritizes C++11 and data processing for high-performance computing. Kitware passed another turning point for the Visualization … Read More
Rendering translucent geometry intermixed with volumes
On a former blog post we discussed about the addition of dual-depth peeling to VTK (vtkDualDepthPeelingPass). As mentioned there, dual-depth peeling roughly doubled the frame rate … Read More
VTK 8.0.0.rc2 ready for testing
The VTK maintenance team is happy to announce that the second release candidate has been tagged for VTK 8.0. You can find the source, data … Read More
VTK 8.0.0-rc1 ready for testing
The VTK maintenance team is happy to announce that VTK 8.0 has entered the release candidate stage! You can find the source, data and documentation … Read More
New VTK Source for Generating Different Cell Types
The linear-edge cell types supported in VTK and ParaView are used all the time and have seen extensive use. While many people are aware of … Read More
Be careful what you grab!
Grabbing a rendered image is a fairly common thing to do in VTK applications. Many do that as follows:
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vtkRenderWindow *renWin = ... .. renWin->Render() vtkNew<vtkWindowToImage> w2i; .. // Let's grab from back buffer as that overcomes // issues with overlapping windows or other UI // components obfuscating the captured image on // certain windowing systems/platforms. w2i->ReadFrontBufferOff(); w2i->Update(); |
This seemingly innocuous code has … Read More