[vtkusers] New volume rendering feature

[Aashish Chaudhary]

In addition to this  work, there have been some exciting progress in the
OpenGL2 GPU volume mapper.
While we work on a blog demonstrating the new features, here is the
high-level bulletin:


   - Support for multi-component datasets wherein each component can be
   represented independently or in a way such that all the component values
   are utilized to lookup the final color and opacity.
   - A major performance improvement (~300%) was achieved  by
   optimizing the computation of the lighting model.
   - The new volume mapper now supports the OpenGL 3.2 core context and
   offloads most of the calculations including bias and scale computations to
   the GPU

Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.

- Aashish

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Aashish Chaudhary <
aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> We have a branch (https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/601)
> that enables uses to export Depth and Color texture from volume mapper.
> This is something useful if you are doing deferred rendering of some sort
> of remote rendering. Along with this, we have pushed some other bug fixes
> and few new features which we will report in a blog soon.
>
> Please let us know if you have any questions.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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