[vtkusers] Shadow support on volume rendering

[David E DeMarle]

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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