[vtkusers] Hardware related question

[Naoko TAKAYA]

Dear VTK users,

This might be a very basic question but please bare with me.

I would like to render 3D images fast if possible. 
I understand that by using 3D graphics hardware acceleration,
the rendering becomes faster. 

I know that OpenGL supports 3D graphics hardware acceleration
but does VTK also support it? 
Must I use vtkOpenGLRenderWindow and vtkOpenGLVolumeRayCastMapper
to render object using 3D graphics hardware acceleration?

I don't know much about what and how 3D graphics hardware
acceleration works so please correct me if I'm misunderstanding. 


Any advise is very much appreciated.
Thank you.

Naoko

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Naoko Takaya 
Computer Vision Laboratory
Department Computer Science
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Ritsumeikan University

e-mail: takaya at cv.cs.ritsumei.ac.jp
HP: http://www.cv.cs.ritsumei.ac.jp/~takaya/

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