[vtk-developers] Merging of new rendering branch to VTK

[Biddiscombe, John A.]

Marcus,

I've got quite a lot of custom rendering modules and would like to add some extra cuda render passes to my paraview representations - are the changes you are making/have made to the vtk rendering documented anywhere so I can see what impact this will/does have on existing painters/mappers etc?

thanks

JB

-----Original Message-----
From: vtk-developers [mailto:vtk-developers-bounces at vtk.org] On Behalf Of Marcus D. Hanwell
Sent: 20 June 2014 05:38
To: VTK Developers
Subject: [vtk-developers] Merging of new rendering branch to VTK

Hi,

We have been hard at work on new rendering code for VTK that makes use of OpenGL 2.1+, and moves to modernize our rendering code. We have also added new CMake capabilities to specify a rendering backend, this defaults to the existing rendering code but can be swapped out for the new. This has been in development for several months, and we intend to merge it to master tomorrow.

If you want to build the new rendering modules they are mutually exclusive of the old rendering modules, as it was necessary to reuse the same class names etc. They depend upon GLEW and Eigen at this time, and I have not yet done the work to add either as third party modules (I will get to it). We will be adding several dashboards to test the new rendering backend next week.

I intend to merge the main branch tomorrow, and will monitor the dashboard for issues over the weekend (using the existing OpenGL implementation). Next week we will add dashboard submissions testing the new rendering backend. We will then attempt to merge updates to this new rendering code more regularly. There are some pretty significant rendering improvements, and we will summarize these in the coming weeks too.

Hopefully disruption to master will be minimal, please let me know if you think there is anything I missed. I am really excited to get some of this code to a wider group, and hope to begin showcasing some of the progress we have made.

Thanks,

Marcus
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