[Paraview] file formats and stereo viewing

[Georg Icking-Konert]

Hi Berk,

sounds like you know how to activate Paraview's stereoscopic view on a 
single CPU...  :-)))  That is EXACTLY what I'm trying to achieve! As to 
my current status: with some help from Giancarlo Amati I have succeeded 
in generating stereoscopic images using vtk/tcl. So, how do I get these 
few lines of code into Paraview? And PLEASE tell me, it's simple (I am 
not excactly what you'd call a crack)... Thanks a lot in advance!

Georg Icking-Konert


> > 	Also I was wanting to add the functionality of a stereoscopic
> > display to paraview, can anyone comment on how straight forward this 
> may, or
> > may not, be?
>
> Depends. On a single processor (and assuming that VTK support the
> stereo mode you are interested in), it would require a few lines of
> change. It is also easy when running in parallel and using collect
> (rendering locally on the first process). However, running in parallel
> and using sort-last compositing, it would be a lot tougher. I think the
> z-buffer is handled differently when in stereo mode and the compositing
> code has to be made aware of this.
>
> -Berk