<div dir="ltr">Hi all, <div><br></div><div>We have made some significant improvements to volume rendering since our last update (Ref: <a href="https://blog.kitware.com/volume-rendering-enhancements-in-vtk/">https://blog.kitware.com/volume-rendering-enhancements-in-vtk/</a>, <a href="https://blog.kitware.com/volume-rendering-on-ios-and-android/">https://blog.kitware.com/volume-rendering-on-ios-and-android/</a>). Below is a list of tasks that are either nearly completed and or are in VTK master as of today. </div><div><br></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-01d7d257-0eff-df5a-1bb1-5996b38a1201"><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Features/updates</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Big volume support - Fixing failing tests. The idea is to split volume into smaller volumes and render them piecewise.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">3x-5x clipping plane performance - For the same parameters, clipping is much faster now, the trick is to skip voxels that are clipped by planes. </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Depth and color data capture - User can use RenderToImage to render to a FBO and get depth and color texture which then could be utilized for other operations. </span></p></li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Bugs</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Fixed gradient opacity not working for more than one components</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Fixed clipping plane location is wrong in certain cases. </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Fixed volume rendering invalid or bad for cell data</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Fixed edges issue when rendering in multiple pieces (hard edges)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Fixed volume rendering not working in remote rendering mode with image reduction factor > 1</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Fixed volume rendering not working in client-server mode</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Fixed volume disappears when changing parameters</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Fixed volume rendering not using the correct sampling distance</span></p></li></ul></ul></span><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><i>| Aashish Chaudhary <br>| Technical Leader         <br>| Kitware Inc.            <br></i></font><div><i><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">| </font><a href="http://www.kitware.com/company/team/chaudhary.html" target="_blank">http://www.kitware.com/company/team/chaudhary.html</a></i></div></div></div>
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