[vtkusers] GPU volume rendering

Fri Apr 17 10:25:04 EDT 2009

I know that it accepts sequence of files. Not sure about multiframe DICOM.

That said, DICOM IO is not a focus of VTKEdge. It uses a rudimentar DICOM
reader found in VTK. We use dedicated DICOM libraries like GDCM etc for
that.

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karthik

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Giancarlo Amati <ilferraresebono at hotmail.it
> wrote:

>  Hi Karthik,
> sorry to bother you...I'm trying to run GPURenderDemo passing -DICOM
> <directory>
> the directory with my .dcm images which are dicom images....now, does it
> take in input a multiSlice->single file volume or a sequence of files?
>
> Kind Regards.
> Giancarlo
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:56:19 -0400
>
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] GPU volume rendering
> From: karthik.krishnan at kitware.com
> To: ilferraresebono at hotmail.it
> CC: vtkusers at vtk.org
>
> try
>
>   c:\Program Files\.....\ctest.exe -D Experimental -C Debug
>
> I think you've built your project for the "Debug" configuration right ?
>
> By default, for multiconfiguration generators such as visual studio, it
> assumes that you have built your project for the Release configuration. The
> "-C Debug" explicitly asks it to test your Debug tree...
>
> Also, if I understand correctly, you were looking for GPU accelerated
> volume rendering. This is not CUDA based and hence of little concern if your
> card does not support CUDA.
>
> Its uses GLSL fragment shader programs and should work fine with your card.
>
> --
> k
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Giancarlo Amati <
> ilferraresebono at hotmail.it> wrote:
>
>  I'm still running the ctest.exe -D Experimental
>
> it is taking a while but ....I got this very first error messages:
> Cannot find file: C:/VTKEdge/BIN/bin/Release/DartConfiguration.tcl
>    Site: Invia
>    Build name:
> Create new tag: 20090417-1136 - Experimental
> Start processing tests
> Configure project
> Cannot find ConfigureCommand key in the DartConfiguration.tcl
> Cannot find file: C:/VTKEdge/BIN/bin/Release/DartConfiguration.tcl
> Build project
> Cannot find MakeCommand key in the DartConfiguration.tcl
> Cannot find file: C:/VTKEdge/BIN/bin/Release/DartConfiguration.tcl
> Test project C:/VTKEdge/BIN/bin/Release
> No tests were found!!!
> Cannot find file: C:/VTKEdge/BIN/bin/Release/DartConfiguration.tcl
> Performing coverage
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:07:08 -0400
>
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] GPU volume rendering
> From: karthik.krishnan at kitware.com
> To: ilferraresebono at hotmail.it
> CC: vtkusers at vtk.org
>
> Your GPU should do just fine.. I believe it supports all the required
> extensions.
>
> If you run into issues, you can run the tests as :
>   cd VTKEdge\binaryDirectory
>   c:\Program Files\......\ctest.exe -D Experimental
>
> and see your results on the dashboard :
>   https://www.kitware.com/CDash/index.php?project=VTKEdge
>
> --
> k
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Giancarlo Amati <
> ilferraresebono at hotmail.it> wrote:
>
>  Hi Karthik,
>
> I'm trying to run all the tests executable for the volume rendering based
> on GPU, and I wonder what kind of GPU is required if there is one
> required...I have an NVIDIA 7900 GS which I believe it has a GPU.
>
> Kind Regards.
> GC>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:05:53 -0400
>
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] GPU volume rendering
> From: karthik.krishnan at kitware.com
> To: ilferraresebono at hotmail.it
> CC: vtkusers at vtk.org
>
> Giancarlo:
>
> As I mentioned earlier, please post your CMakeCache.txt file, NOT
> CMakeLists.txt .
>
> The CMakeCache.txt file should be found at the top level of your binary
> directory.
>
> Thanks
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Giancarlo Amati <
> ilferraresebono at hotmail.it> wrote:
>
>
> In attachment the CMAKELIST.txt file which comes with the
> distribution...I've never edited that.
>
> GC
> ------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:45:33 -0400
>
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] GPU volume rendering
> From: karthik.krishnan at kitware.com
> To: ilferraresebono at hotmail.it
> CC: vtkusers at vtk.org
>
> There is no relation dependency of CUDA related sources and KWWidgets in
> VTKEdge. Please post your configuration errors to the list and also post
> your CMakeCache.txt (You should find this file in your binary directory)
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:40 AM, Giancarlo Amati <
> ilferraresebono at hotmail.it> wrote:
>
>  I dunno why as I have CUDA installed, as I turn on the _use_CUDA option
> with CMAKE it requires something related to KWidget....
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:32:23 -0400
>
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] GPU volume rendering
> From: karthik.krishnan at kitware.com
> To: ilferraresebono at hotmail.it
> CC: vtkusers at vtk.org
>
> No VTKEdge itself does not require KWWidgets.
>
> You need them only if you'd like to build the GUI based paintbrush tool
> demos. You don't seem to need any of those
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Giancarlo Amati <
> ilferraresebono at hotmail.it> wrote:
>
>  does it require any widgets? like Kwidget?
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:22:24 -0400
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] GPU volume rendering
> From: karthik.krishnan at kitware.com
> To: ilferraresebono at hotmail.it
> CC: vtkusers at vtk.org
>
>
> Giancarlo:
>
> VTKEdge does build with VTK CVS and if I am not mistaken also builds fine
> with VTK-5-4.
>
> Could you please post the errors you are getting to the list.
>
> Here is a link to last night's dashboard :
>   https://www.kitware.com/CDash/index.php?project=VTKEdge&date=2009-04-16
>
> Thanks
> --
> karthik
>
>  On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Giancarlo Amati <
> ilferraresebono at hotmail.it> wrote:
>
>  Hello everybody,
>
> does anybody know about a library for GPU accelerated volume rendering
> compatible with VTK?
>
> I'm struggling in finding something nice....and I'm trying to compile
> VTKedge but...with no success with VTK 5.4
>
> Kind Regards.
> Giancarlo
>
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