[vtkusers] MPI Offscreen Volume Rendering

Kevin H. Hobbs kevin.hobbs.1 at ohiou.edu
Wed May 17 11:11:00 EDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 08:29 -0600, Wylie, Brian wrote:
> All,
> 
> There is functionality in ParaView which will take an unstructured grid,
> chop it up along axis aligned boundaries with D3
> (vtkDataDistributionFilter) and create a DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph)
> based on the current viewpoint and then alpha blend the results. Which
> gives you parallel unstructured volume rendering. :)
> 
> If you want to do the same sort of thing in VTK it might be helpful to
> reuse some of the functionality from ParaView or at least poke around
> the code a bit.
> 

Thank you.  I'll start poking around.
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