3D platforms

requirements

• Traditional windowing/GUI capabilities
• real-time rendering
• Advanced visualisation, such as: transparent volume and isosurface.
• Stereoscopic capabilities. This requires rendering of "left eye" and "right eye" camera.
  • crosseye: 2 screens alongside each other
  • anaglyph: render using colour masks
  • shutter glasses: render alternating frames
  • projection screen: render on "dual head" system
  • 3D tv and other stereoscopic devices: the Philips 3D TV uses an openGL-compatible backend.
• Input device capabilities:
  • Reading raw keyboard state
  • Reading mouse coordinates
  • (Compatibility with haptic device)
  • Compatibility with custom input devices

platforms

• IBM open visualization data explorer (DX). Some experimental stereo code available.

• OpenGL. Tested different input and output devices extensively. I implemented some basic visualisation techniques but this should still be improved.

• VTK Works with StereoGL to produce stereo. See also: surface and volume rendering in VTK

• Amide

• OpenTissue

• vtkfvr: freeVR + VTK

• VolV

• Voxx: A Volume Rendering Program for 3D Microscopy

Volume rendering docs, papers, and datasets

• Utah volume rendering course, mummy dataset