[vtkusers] [Ves] Compiling VTK for iOS????

[Aashish Chaudhary]

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Abhishek Gupta <abhishek at meddiff.com> wrote:

> Hello Joachim,
>
> Target is to implement volume rendering application on iOS platform. If "
> vtkFixedPointVolumeRayCastMapper" can be used, could you please direct me
> to a suitable example?
>
>
Abhishek, I think if you need something right now to support volume
rendering, I would suggest ParaViewWeb. In there you can perform volume
rendering on the server side, create an image, and have it delivered to the
mobile system. In that you can still use all of your current code.


> A quick question regarding paraview web. Will it work with iOS browsers?
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Joachim Pouderoux <
> joachim.pouderoux at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Abhishek,
>>
>> VTK as is will not compile on iOS because a lot of VTK code is based on
>> the OpenGL rendering API which is not available on handhelds.
>> VES provides a modified version of VTK where all the rendering modules
>> are disabled. VES provides a rendering engine (based on OpenGL ES)
>> which is totally different as the one implied in VTK for desktop.
>> For now only geometric models are supported, and no volume rendering is
>> available for use with OpenGL ES
>> with VES (however I guess the CPU fixed raycasting engine -
>> vtkFixedPointVolumeRayCastMapper - could work as is but you may expect
>> slow rendering times...) Also think that OpenGL ES has many limitations,
>> GPU volume rendering is computation intensive and handheld GPU
>> are far having the same performances than desktop one.
>> If you need to visualize large volume models, you may consider to use a
>> remote rendering scheme as the one provided by ParaViewWeb.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> 2012/12/3 abhishek <abhishek at meddiff.com>
>>
>>> Hello Users,
>>>
>>> I want to use VTK libraries on iOS. As far as I know, VTK has a
>>> development
>>> branch named VES whose work is currently in progress and it does not come
>>> with most of the core VTK classes that I need to use.
>>>
>>> So i want to compile VTK for iOS. Someone who has done it, Please help.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Abhishek.
>>>
>>>
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>
>
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