[Paraview] Best file format for volume rendering in ParaView?

2012-05-21 Thread Christoffer Green
Hello What are your thoughts on the best file format to use when doing volume rendering in ParaView? I have been trying out the ensight format and the vtk format and find them less then ideal, is there anything better? Findings for ensight: ParaView does not appear to support volume rendering of

Re: [Paraview] Best file format for volume rendering in ParaView?

2012-05-22 Thread Berk Geveci
What is your end goal? Volume rendering a collection of MRI volumes (together? non-overlapping?) that may not be axis aligned? One way of doing this in ParaView would be to convert them to unstructured grid (by using clean-to-grid for example) but this comes at a large memory overhead and performan

Re: [Paraview] Best file format for volume rendering in ParaView?

2012-05-23 Thread Christoffer Green
Hello Thank you for the suggestions. The use case is that I am currently writing an application (based on ParaView) that is going to be used by doctors/researchers for visualizing MRI data of blood flow (some more information can be found here: http://www.jcmr-online.com/content/14/S1/W14 ). This

Re: [Paraview] Best file format for volume rendering in ParaView?

2012-05-24 Thread Berk Geveci
Disclaimer: I am not a medical guy and I don't deal with volumes very often. I suspect that your best bet is to use ITK (or VTK) filters to somehow create one or more axis-aligned, non-overlapping volumes out of the original data. This could be done as a pre-processing step or within the reader. I