[vtkusers] Shadow support on volume rendering

[Ken Martin]

Nice!

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 8:44 AM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Just letting you know that shadow casting volumes are available now in VTK
> master and ParaView 5.2.0.rc1 thanks to new capability in OSPRay 1.1.0.
>
> ​
>  Screenshot from 2016-10-11 08-29-15.png
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> ​
>
> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
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> On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 11:54 AM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com
> > wrote:
>
>> We are working toward that via Rendering/OSPRay, stay tuned.
>>
>> It will be a few months probably. First we have to expose volumes, then
>> OSPRay's volumes have to support shadows.
>>
>> David E DeMarle
>> Kitware, Inc.
>> R&D Engineer
>> 21 Corporate Drive
>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 3:59 AM, ianl <ilindsay at insigniamedical.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the quick reply - I suspected as much.
>>>
>>> It was more of a case of seeing that an easy way of turning shadows on
>>> was
>>> available and of trying it out to see what it looked like to determine
>>> whether it was something we could offer our customers as an option (and
>>> it
>>> looks good at shows!).
>>>
>>> I take your point that it probably makes the visualisation more 'busy'
>>> and
>>> may hide areas in shade that would otherwise be seen. I was interested in
>>> whether a subtle shadow made depth perception a bit easier.
>>>
>>> From a quick google, examples of renders of medical data with shadows on
>>> are
>>> few and far between. This is a fairly nice example:
>>> http://medvis.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/example_03.png . This may
>>> well
>>> be due to quite a lot of them being based on VTK though!
>>>
>>> Ian
>>>
>>>
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