[vtkusers] volume vizualization with VTK

[Sean McBride]

On 2005-07-06 15:05, Adam Kubach said:

>Currently we have a dataset that consists of 170 1024 by 1024 16 bit 
>grayscale tiffs ( ~350MB total ).  We would like to do volume 
>vizualization with this data set.  Has anyone had success (high enough 
>frame rate for responsive user interaction) using VTK with data sets of 
>this size?  The examples that I've seen so far are relatively small.

I would think that would be pretty slow.  On my Dual 2.0 GHz Mac G5 with
ATI Radeon 9600 XT a 256 x 256 x 124 pixel volume looks very nice, but
when I rotate it, it reduces greatly in quality to achieve interactive
frame rates.  I tried vtkVolumeRayCastMapper and vtkVolumeTextureMapper2D.

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