[vtkusers] Sharing 3D textures on GPU between multiple openGL contexts

Zein Salah zeinsalah at gmail.com
Tue Jun 14 03:44:08 EDT 2016


Thanks, Ken, for the feedback.

Actually I am not a big expert. Any ideas how to do this?

2016-05-31 21:11 GMT+02:00 Ken Martin <ken.martin at kitware.com>:
> We have not added that capability into VTK. OpenGL supports it, we just have
> not provided an API to do it directly.
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 4:31 AM, Zein Salah <zeinsalah at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I have a 3D texture (i.e., a 3D image volume) on the GPU that I want to
>> share
>> between multiple contexts. In essence, I want to display different views
>> of the
>> same texture in different widgets using different shader/fragement
>> programs.
>>
>> 1. Is this possible in VTK?
>> 2. Which version of VTK supports this?
>>
>> Much thanks,
>> Zein
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