[vtkusers] MPI Offscreen Volume Rendering

[Kevin H. Hobbs]

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 08:48 -0600, Wylie, Brian wrote:
> All,
> 
> (sorry if you get a resend I had to super compress the pdf because
> vtkuser was bouncing the message...)
> 
> Folks may already be aware of this, but just wanted to point out that
> 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.
> 

SWEET THAT WORKS! WAHOOO!

Now to get some actual work done.
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