Joe Quinlan (jquinlan@qstick)
Mon, 08 Nov 1999 18:12:55 -0800
Thank you to those of you who attended the October 27 Volumizer Birds of
a Feather meeting at Visualization '99. For those of you who couldn't
make it, we are providing a report on the meeting below. As always we
continue to request your input on requirements you have for OpenGL
Volumizer.
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VIS '99 OPENGL VOLUMIZER BOF REPORT
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SGI presented the roadmap that the Volumizer Business Team has
developed.
We're planning some upcoming releases to Volumizer.
Volumizer 1.2
- Target Date - December 15, 1999
- Voxel Modification
- Shared Memory Support
- Performer Volumizer
- Stereo Example Code
- Bug Fixes
Volumizer 1.2.1
- Target Date - March 31, 2000
- Linux Port
- IRIX/Odyssey Optimizations
- Hexahedral Utility Functions
- Parallelization of Polygonization
- Volumizer Viewer
- LUT Editor
Later, we see Volumizer moving to a new and better architecture. We
haven't assigned dates to these versions yet, and some of the groupings
of features may differ from the release order shown below. These are
our ideas on the direction Volumizer should take:
Volumizer 2.0
- New Architecture
- Simplification of API
- Extensibility for industry specific solutions
- Resource management processes for large data
- Volume Roaming
Volumizer 2.1
- Volume shading & shadowing
- Integration of parallel volume rendering techniques
- Quality improvements for perspective rendering
- Large Volume Arbitrary Slicing
Volumizer 2.2
- Multi-Volume Support
- Overlapping volumes
- Multi-variate volumes
- Multi-Resolution Volume
- Disk based data management
Additional Feature Possibilities
- Operational Volume Modification (i.e. add, subtract, and, or, not)
- File Loaders (i.e. 3D tiff, DICOM)
- Volume Processing (i.e. region connectivity, filtering)
Thank you to Sean Spicer and Chikai Ohazama for your interesting demos
at the BOF.
We look forward to continued interaction with the Volumizer community.
Best Regards,
Joe Quinlan
OpenGL Volumizer Product Manager
-- ============================================== Joe Quinlan, Product Marketing Manager Visual Systems Business Unit, Silicon Graphics Tel: (650) 933-6670 Fax: (650) 932-6670 Pager: 800-745-5748 ==============================================
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