[vtkusers] vtkVolumeProperty IndependentComponents On and Off

Aashish Chaudhary aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com
Wed Dec 9 13:44:19 EST 2015 

Kenji,

Can you try the latest patch? Undo the last patch before you apply this
patch:

Thanks,


On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Aashish Chaudhary <
aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com> wrote:

> Let me check.. scalarsRange is the local variables (float) type. I tested
> it on my Linux box and things were
> fine but it is possible that gcc failed to catch it.
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Kenji Tsumura <
> kenji.tsumura at neosoftmedical.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Aashish,
>>
>>
>>
>> I applied the patch to the latest VTK (from GIT) and rebuilt it.
>>
>> An error occurred when I run the test program you gave me without
>> gradient opacity.
>>
>> Please find the attached file.
>>
>> I am not sure why…
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>>
>>
>> Kenji
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Aashish Chaudhary [mailto:aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com]
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 09, 2015 9:04 AM
>>
>> *To:* Kenji Tsumura
>> *Cc:* vtkusers at vtk.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [vtkusers] vtkVolumeProperty IndependentComponents On and
>> Off
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Kenji,
>>
>>
>>
>> Could you please try the attached patch? Once if works for you, I will
>> clean it up and create a merge request.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Aashish Chaudhary <
>> aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>> Aha... I think I know how to fix the bug.  Gradient opacity was the key.
>> I will push a fix today.
>>
>>
>>
>> - Aashish
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Kenji Tsumura <
>> kenji.tsumura at neosoftmedical.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Aashish,
>>
>>
>>
>> Adding gradient opacity to the test sample causes the same error I have
>> seen in my application.
>>
>> Please refer to the attached file.
>>
>> So my application works with IndependentComponents On after removing
>> gradient opacity.
>>
>>
>>
>> Kenji
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Aashish Chaudhary [mailto:aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com]
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 08, 2015 8:22 AM
>>
>>
>> *To:* Kenji Tsumura
>> *Cc:* vtkusers at vtk.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [vtkusers] vtkVolumeProperty IndependentComponents On and
>> Off
>>
>>
>>
>> That would be great Kenji, thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> - Aashish
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Kenji Tsumura <
>> kenji.tsumura at neosoftmedical.com> wrote:
>>
>> Aashish,
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>> I will try to run the test example and see what happens.
>>
>> If the test is ok, I will try to reproduce the problem with simpler code.
>>
>>
>>
>> Kenji
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Aashish Chaudhary [mailto:aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com]
>> *Sent:* Monday, December 07, 2015 3:58 PM
>>
>>
>> *To:* Kenji Tsumura
>> *Cc:* vtkusers at vtk.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [vtkusers] vtkVolumeProperty IndependentComponents On and
>> Off
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks Kenji for trying out. Its not clear in the log why the build
>> shader code crashed.
>>
>> Also, I realized that you using Java bindings. Would it be possible to
>> re-create this issue
>>
>> with a small sample code and you send it to me? We do have two component
>> and 4 component
>>
>> test (dependent and independent). Please have a look here:
>> https://github.com/Kitware/VTK/blob/master/Rendering/Volume/Testing/Cxx/TestGPURayCastTwoComponentsIndependent.cxx
>>
>>
>>
>> and
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/Kitware/VTK/blob/master/Rendering/Volume/Testing/Cxx/TestGPURayCastTwoComponentsDependent.cxx
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Kenji Tsumura <
>> kenji.tsumura at neosoftmedical.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Aashish,
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> I tried with vtkGPUVolumeRayCastMapper.
>>
>> An error occurs without setting IndependentComponentsOff.
>>
>> It seems  the error occurs in
>> vtkOpenGLGPUVolumeRayCastMapper::BuildShader (See the attached file).
>>
>>
>>
>> Kenji
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Aashish Chaudhary [mailto:aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com]
>> *Sent:* Monday, December 07, 2015 1:54 PM
>> *To:* Kenji Tsumura
>> *Cc:* vtkusers at vtk.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [vtkusers] vtkVolumeProperty IndependentComponents On and
>> Off
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Kenji Tsumura <
>> kenji.tsumura at neosoftmedical.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> I have 3D cardiac MRI data (magnitude data and velocity data), and would
>> like to display the volume rendering of the two data.
>>
>> I create vtkVolume with two components  (first one is velocity data and
>> second one is magnitude data) and use vtkSmartVolumeMapper.
>>
>> When I set IndependentComponentsOn to the volume property, I can see what
>> I want (refer to the first figure).
>>
>> But this setting disables GPU rendering and it is slow.
>>
>>
>>
>> I don't remember vtkSmartVolumeMapper has this logic, I will have a look.
>> In the old GPU raycast mapper, there was some issue with independent
>> components so may be that is the reason that smart volume mapper switched
>> to fixed point ray cast.
>>
>>
>>
>> Is there a particular reason you are using vtkSmartVolumeMapper?  You can
>> directly use GPUVolume RayCastMapper
>>
>>
>>
>> My understanding is that I have to use IndependentComponentsOff to make
>> the mapper use GPU rendering.
>>
>> When I set IndependentComponentsOff, only one color transfer function,
>> and only one scalar opacity function to the volume property,
>>
>> the magnitude data (the second component) is also color-coded (refer to
>> the second figure).
>>
>> I thought this contradicts the method comments of
>> IndependentComponentsOn/ IndependentComponentsOff.
>>
>>
>>
>> “For 2 component data, the first is passed through the first color
>> transfer function and the second component is passed through the first
>> opacity transfer function.”
>>
>>
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>>
>> Can I make the volume rendering look the same as using two components?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>>
>>
>> BTY, I use v6.3.0, OpenGL2.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
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>>
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