<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi David,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">you could work around the issue by having one image, where low values represent normal brain tissue and high values represent a lesion. Then make a transfer function which assigns gray color to low values, and red color to high values. And please report back with the outcome and possibly some screenshots.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dženan</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 6:08 PM, dewarren <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davideugenewarren+vtk@gmail.com" target="_blank">davideugenewarren+vtk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Weiguang, thanks for the tip — that's interesting. It's possible such a<br>
solution could work for my needs. Unfortunately, my first attempt to<br>
implement it didn't work. I think that the answer may lie in VTK's<br>
definition of a volume.<br>
<br>
Briefly, the back-to-front rendering solution could work for me depending on<br>
what the following means: "multiple volumes do not overlap in 3D space". If<br>
that means that two "volumes" (I'm using the term loosely because of my<br>
ignorance) can be rendered correctly so long as they don't occupy any common<br>
voxels, I think it can work. If it instead means that two volumes can be<br>
rendered correctly only so long as their bounding boxes do not intersect,<br>
then it won't work.<br>
<br>
For example, if I have a brain template and a map of a brain lesion on that<br>
template, I could create two arrays that represent the intact and lesioned<br>
parts of the brain, and then apply unique transfer functions to each for<br>
display (coloring the intact brain in grayscale and the lesion in red, say).<br>
The intact and lesioned brain regions would not overlap in space, but they<br>
would be adjacent, have a complex boundary, and have overlapping bounding<br>
boxes. Would it be possible to render this scene with VTK currently?<br>
<br>
Many thanks!<br>
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