20031118: IDV for fMRI : Volume rendering

>From: Bernard Mendiburu <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCLA
>Keywords: 200311190012.hAJ0ChOb000193 volume rendering

Bernard-

>>*3 - about IDV visualisation features -> Volume Rendering*
>>Is it possible to make some volume rendering ?
>>Would it be possible to integrate volrend routines ?
>>http://www.j3d.org/tutorials/quick_fix/volume.html
>
>VisAD supports volume rendering, so we could probably 
>do that in the IDV. It may be a resource hog.
>
>What is a resource hog ?

I meant in terms of speed and memory usage.

>How many year/man does it cost ?

Well, it depends.  For volume rendering, the data must
have a Linear3DSet.  If not, a custom renderer would be
needed.  I'm not sure what the time would be to implement
such a beast.

I'll look into this further.  My initial tests at just having
it use the VisAD methods did not work.

Don