[vtkusers] Volume Rendering Update

[Aashish Chaudhary]

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Mike Guttman <mguttman at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello Aashish,
>
> It seems you cannot enable ExternalVTKWidget with OpenGL2.  Any idea when
> this combination will be supported?
>

What SHA of git you are using?

>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> *From: *Aashish Chaudhary <aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com>
> *To: *vtkusers <vtkusers at vtk.org>, VTK Developers <vtk-developers at vtk.org>
> *Date: *May 29, 2015 at 5:31:34 PM EDT
> *Subject: **[vtkusers] Volume Rendering Update*
>
>
> Folks,
>
> We made some recent improvements to VTK volume rendering including fixes
> to related components. Here is a list of those changes:
>
> 1) Now new GPU Volume Mapper respect Interpolation Type (Linear or
> Nearest). Default is Nearest as in the last GPU mapper.
>
> 2) Shading is now twice as fast as before. There will be another branch to
> make it even faster.
>
> 3) Fixed lighting bug (number of lights kept on increasing with change in
> volume property)
>
> 4) Saving and Restoring GL state properly for textures
>
> 5) Bias and Scale are now performed in Shader.
>
> 6) We changed some GL texture format information to support OpenGL 3
> context
>
> 7) Fixed extensions were not reported correctly on GL2 context
>
> 8) Fixed few failing tests specifically on Mesa
>
> 9) Removed VolumeOpenGLNew module as it was not as usable with OpenGL2
> getting ready for primetime
>
> 10)  Added convenience API to SmartVolume Mapper
>
> 11) Cleaned up logic for dealing with context changes in Volume Mapper
>
>
> Please let us know if you have any questions.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> --
>
>
>
> *| Aashish Chaudhary | Technical Leader         | Kitware Inc.            *
> *| http://www.kitware.com/company/team/chaudhary.html
> <http://www.kitware.com/company/team/chaudhary.html>*
>
>


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