A while ago I asked about the prospect for volume rendering (and better-scalable rendering in Avogadro in general). I was told there was a VTK integration in the works, but I haven't heard about it since then.
Also, VTK has pretty awful support for volume rendering -- it really wasn't designed for that. So far I've been using my own custom tool, an interactive direct volume renderer that supports large-scale ball and stick vis. Some examples are here: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~knoll/supersoot/supersoot_bas9.png http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~knoll/supersoot/supersoot_bas7.png My motivation: my users (and myself) love the Avogadro interface and would like to use it if possible. What would be involved in modifying Avogadro to support an interactive GPU raycasting rendering backend? I understand this may not replace rasterization outright (for backwards compatibility and speed reasons), but for a lot of visualization this would be a huge improvement. -Aaron _____________________________ Aaron Knoll Computational Postdoc Fellow FuturesLab Vis Group Mathematics and Computer Science http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~knoll [email protected] On Jul 11, 2011, at 6:56 AM, David Lonie wrote: > Hi Tim -- Do you still have this script around? > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Cecil O'Dell <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 8:51 AM > Subject: Re: [Avogadro-devel] Avogadro inside of a python GUI > To: David Lonie <[email protected]> > > > http://timvdm.blogspot.com/2009/05/using-avogadro-library-from-python.html > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 8:48 AM, David Lonie <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Cecil O'Dell <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Dear Avogadro developers, >>> >>> I came across one man's blog that claimed to have loaded Avogadro's C++ >>> libraries into 65 lines of python script and had a picture of it slowing >>> various molecular displays. Yet the code is nowhere to be found. Does anyone >>> know where I can access this code? It would be very beneficial to the >>> project I am currently working on. >> >> Can you provide a link to the blog? >> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Cecil >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. >>> Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security >>> threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes >>> sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Avogadro-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/avogadro-devel >>> >>> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. > Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 > _______________________________________________ > Avogadro-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/avogadro-devel _____________________________ Aaron Knoll Computational Postdoc Fellow FuturesLab Vis Group Mathematics and Computer Science http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~knoll [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup Secrets Revealed." This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Avogadro-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/avogadro-devel
