[vtkusers] Volume rendering example

[David Gobbi]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:29 AM, David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 7:17 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yesterday I added a CT volume rendering example to VTK cvs, in
>> Examples/Medical/Cxx/Medical4.cxx, and you can download it from here:
>>
>> http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Examples/Medical/Cxx/Medical4.cxx
>>
>> It uses the headsq data and does ray casting.
>>
>>   David
>
> David Gobbi,
>
> Thanks for adding this example! Is there a reason they are called Medical1,
> Medical2, etc instead of something more descriptive such as
> Medical_CTVolumeRendering or Medical_VolumeRendering or something like that?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David

I can't say for sure, but I think that these were originally textbook
examples, with the idea that the textbook described them in enough
detail that descriptive filenames were unnecessary.  I stuck with the
old naming scheme since my example is derived from those older ones.

  David