[vtkusers] [Paraview] GPU based volume rendering in ParaView
Eric E. Monson
emonson at cs.duke.edu
Mon Mar 1 14:28:46 EST 2010
Hey all,
Thanks for the feedback. Yup, I can get it to error out just as you said! :)
I guess I'd seen something about this on the list regarding VTKEdge, but hadn't remembered. Please let us all know, though, if a solution pops up.
Talk to you later,
-Eric
On Mar 1, 2010, at 1:54 PM, Francois Bertel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The GPU Rast Mapper does not work on Mac so it is skipped to avoid bad behavior.
>
> It is skipped because:
>
> 1. on Snow Leopard with an nVidia card, the GPU Ray Cast mapper
> triggers a bug in the OpenGL driver (that we cannot locate precisely
> enough) and the driver will exit the application with:
>
> (0) : fatal error C9999: Nested functions, aborting!
>
> or:
>
> (0) : fatal error C9999: *** exception during compilation ***
> Cg compiler terminated due to fatal error
>
>
> 2. On Leopard, a user reported a corrupted image.
>
> If you are adventurous, and see what happen for your specific
> configuration, you can comment out the lines in
> VTK/VolumeRendering/vtkOpenGLGPUVolumeRayCastMapper.cxx that skip the
> Macs:
>
> // It does not work on Apple OS X Snow Leopard with nVidia.
> // There is a bug in the OpenGL driver with an error in the
> // Cg compiler about an infinite loop.
> #ifdef __APPLE__
> this->LoadExtensionsSucceeded=0;
> return;
> #endif
>
> Regards
>
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Aashish Chaudhary
> <aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Eric,
>>
>> Yes you do need to have certain extensions. Now the mapper I have not
>> written myself and hence I am forwarding this email to vtk users list. I
>> hope that the original author would respond to it.
>>
>> I will see if we can produce a better message which could list the missing
>> extensions.
>>
>> Thanks for testing it out.
>>
>> ~Regards,
>> Aashish
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Eric E. Monson <emonson at cs.duke.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey Aashish,
>>> I've been having trouble with it, too, on my Mac (OS X 10.6.2, PV compiled
>>> serial x86_64 arch updated from CVS and rebuilt today, CMake 2.9.20100113).
>>> Are there any special hardware requirements, then? I can see the GPU Volume
>>> Mapper option, but when I switch over to that from the "Fixed point" mapper
>>> I get this error:
>>> ERROR:
>>> In /Users/emonson/Programming/ParaView_cvs/ParaView3/VTK/VolumeRendering/vtkOpenGLGPUVolumeRayCastMapper.cxx,
>>> line 4110
>>> vtkOpenGLGPUVolumeRayCastMapper (0x12082cc00): Rendering failed because
>>> the following OpenGL extensions are required but not supported:
>>>
>>> (Just as this shows, the list of OpenGL extensions it says are required
>>> but not supported is empty...) My graphics card is a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT.
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Eric
>>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>> Eric E Monson
>>> Duke Visualization Technology Group
>>>
>>> On Mar 1, 2010, at 11:55 AM, Aashish Chaudhary wrote:
>>>
>>> No there is no special option required but you would have to update your
>>> paraview cvs copy as the code got into cvs last thursday.
>>>
>>> Can you update and compile again?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Pierre-Olivier Dallaire
>>> <pierre-olivier.dallaire at videotron.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Do we need to enable a special option in the CMakeCache.txt file in
>>>> order to get this feature ?
>>>> I compiled the CVS version on Mac and cannot access the GPU option for
>>>> volume rendering.
>>>> Regards,
>>>> PO
>>>> On 2010-02-26, at 10:58 AM, Aashish Chaudhary wrote:
>>>>
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> I am pleased to announce that ParaView3 now has GPU based volume
>>>> rendering from VTKEdge. Its currently in CVS and should be able to make
>>>> into 3.8 release.
>>>> Currently it does not work in tile display mode but we are hoping to fix
>>>> it in near future. Any bug reports are welcome.
>>>>
>>>> Attached is the screen shot.
>>>>
>>>> ~Regards,
>>>>
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>>>> | R&D Engineer
>>>> | Kitware Inc.
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>>>
>>>
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