Volren

A Hardware Accelerated Volume Renderer


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What Is It?


Volren is a hardware accelerated volume renderer based upon the texture mapping capabilities available in Silicon Graphics' Indigo2 Impact, Onyx Reality Engine, and Onyx Infinite Reality architectures. The renderer provides the ability to control the mapping from scalar data value to color and opacity as well as the ability to render voxel and geometric data together. The renderer loads data as a collection of 2D image files in one of many formats.


How Do I Get It?


A compressed tar file can be fetched from sgigate.sgi.com in the ~ftp/pub/demos directory. Login as "ftp" and provide your email address as the password (e.g. "foo@bar.com"). Get the newest copy of volren available. Uncompress the tar file using zcat or uncompress. Untarring the file should produce a directory containing the volren distribution.


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Todd Kulick -- kulick@sgi.com