Hi Bill, Thanks for your reply. I have been reading the VisAd website on volume rendering. I have been creating my application without using VisAd. Do you think it is possible to use the volume rendering function in VisAd directly in my application? Do I have to create my application with VisAD?
Thank you Bill Hibbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Vijay, > >On Wed, 15 May 2002, Vijayaraghavan Rajagopal wrote: > >> I know I have asked this question before. I would like to use 2D textures to come >up with a 3D image of the brain. I have gone through a number of websites and papers >on this subject-Ray Casting and the splatting algorithms in particular. But all of >them give me a description of the algorithm. I am not able to see how I can implement >it in Java 3D. Can someone give me a general idea how to implement ray casting? Is it >somewhere along the lines of using the lighting feature in Java 3D as the ray along >which to estimate intensities? >> >> Thanks >> Vijay Rajagopal > >VisAD will do this for you, displaying your data as a transparent volume >using Java3D textures. See Section 4.11 of Ugo Taddei's VisAD Tutorial >for a description, available at: > > http://www.geogr.uni-jena.de/~p6taug/visad/tutorial/s4/Section4.html#section4_11 > >VisAD is freely available, including source code, from: > > http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/visad.html > >Good luck, >Bill Hibbard > >=========================================================================== >To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body >of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". > __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
