[Paraview] 3d visualisation

[Dr Gavin Tabor]

Hi Bernhard! I think quite a few O'Foamers read the paraview mailing
list as well - for obvious reasons.

Thanks for the links. I'm passing them on to the vendor to see what
sense they can make of them - I think CrystalEyes is an active system,
whereas what we are looking at is a passive system working on polarising
light - but the second of your links seems to suggest that it will work
with that OK too.

Gavin


On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 13:58 +0000, Bernhard Gschaider wrote:
> Hi Gavin!
> 
> (It's funny: you always meet the same people in very different places
> ;) )
> 
> >>>>> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:38:34 +0000
> >>>>> "GT" == Gavin Tabor <Dr> wrote:
> 
>     GT> Dear All, We are looking at buying a 3d projection system;
>     GT> this consists of two projectors with polarising filters and a
>     GT> screen, and you wear polarising glasses; it gives a very
>     GT> impressive 3d effect. I use paraview (and paraFoam from
>     GT> OpenFOAM) and would want to integrate this with the new system
>     GT> - does anyone have any experience with 3d visualisation using
>     GT> paraview?? I assume all that is necessary is to have 2 cameras
>     GT> looking at the scene and feeding to the two projectors; but is
>     GT> this already implemented, or if not, is anyone working on it??
> 
> These are just some pointers (some of them outdated):
> 
> The VTK-toolkit (which paraview is based on) seems to support
> stereo-rendering 
> 
> http://www.vtk.org/doc/release/5.2/html/a01192.html
> 
> One (possibly outdated) method to get it to work in Paraview is
> described here:
> 
> http://www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/rg/20040715_schwarz/
> 
> I think (not sure) that MayaVi (another postprocessor based on VTK)
> had the option to switch to stero-rendering
> 
> I know this is sketchy, but it's all I know (maybe somebody here can
> tell you more)
> 
> Bernhard
> 
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Dr Gavin Tabor
Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering,
Computing and Mathematics (SECaM),
University of Exeter