[Paraview] Picking laptop hardware for significant use with VTK and ParaView

[Berk Geveci]

If you are talking about volume rendering of volumes (vtkImageData),
the only available volume renderer is software based. We will add 3D
texture based volume renderer in the future.

-berk

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Weirs, V Gregory <vgweirs at sandia.gov> wrote:
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>  I don't do much volume rendering, if that's what you mean, but it seems to
> work just fine.
>
>  As far as Paraview using the hardware correctly, I have no idea. I don't
> have any evidence that it isn't. I guess if it didn't, it might just be
> slow, but I don't have a sense of how fast volume rendering should be.
>
>  Greg
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>  On 4/17/08 2:33 PM, "Dan Goldstein" <dan at cora.nwra.com> wrote:
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> Thanks for the info Greg. Have you tried volume visualization in
>  Paraview? Does it seem to use the hardware correctly?
>
>  Thanks
>
>  Dan
>
>  Weirs, V Gregory wrote:
>  >
>  > I have a MacBook Pro 15", about a year and a half old, running Tiger. No
>  > special drivers to install or anything like that. Output to second
>  > display works out of the box, whether a projector or monitor. It's
> fabulous.
>  >
>  > The Mac build of Paraview works fine, I sometimes build from the cvs
>  > trunk and don't have any Mac-specific problems. The Mac install is
>  > problematic so I just run out of the build directory; but I know a lot
>  > of effort is going into that and I expect it will all be fixed it in 3.4
>  > or soon after.
>  >
>  > Greg
>  >
>  >
>  > On 4/17/08 10:01 AM, "Dan Goldstein" <dan at cora.nwra.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >     Hi,
>  >        Can I get some quick feedback on how ParaView and VTK is running
>  >     on the MacBook Pro laptops? Is opengl hardware acceleration with the
>  >     Nvidia  GPU and current Apple drivers all working? I am getting ready
> to
>  >     buy one and I just want to make sure, since one of my primary uses
> will
>  >     be ParaView visualization of CFD results.
>  >     ParaView never did correctly use the hardware in my last trusty
> laptop
>  >     (Dell M50) ,although it does have a good Nvidia chip set.  (Not
>  >     complaining, I just want to make sure I get a working hardware/driver
>  >     combo this time..)
>  >
>  >        Thanks for any feedback.
>  >
>  >     Dan Goldstein
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