[vtkusers] Rendering without graphics card

Gerard Gorman g.gorman at imperial.ac.uk
Thu Sep 29 17:50:27 EDT 2005


Run your application using xvfb-run.
Cheers
g


Weiguang Guan wrote:

>Hello VTK users,
>
>Is it possible to do volume rendering on a machine that doesn't have 
>graphics card (or force it not using graphics card even if it is 
>installed)? Does VTK support soft rendering?
>
>We have a fairly large cluster, each node has a fast cpu and large memory,
>but no graphics card. I wonder if I could use the cluster to do
>visualization work, that is, cpu-based rendering.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Weiguang
>
>  
>




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