[Paraview] multiblock and volume render

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Currently paraview supports volume rendering only for multiblock of
unstructured datasets.
I've added a feature request to the bug tracker.
http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=9198

Utkarsh

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Bam Ting <bampingting at gmail.com> wrote:

> Each block is an image data. Should ParaView do a volume render on the
> multiblock? The FAQ said yes.
>
> I can reproduce this outside of my reader as well. Use the mandlebrot
> source to make a 3D image the volume option is available in drop down, then
> use the group dataset feature to convert this into multiblock and the volume
> option disappears.
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit <
> utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> What is the datatype for the data each block of the multiblock dataset?
>> ParaView can volume render unstructured grids or image data.
>> Utkarsh
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Bam Ting <bampingting at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I wrote a parallel reader using multiblock dataset. How do I do a volume
>>> rendering? The drop down has no volume option. Do I have to re-write me
>>> reader to produce image data and use update extent?
>>>
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