Export Volume Rendering as stack of PNG's. NOT stl's

[ihnorton (Isaiah Norton)]

@JoeCrozier

I thought it’d be cool if the volume rendering options in 3d slicer that provide color volumes could then be exported (with their colors) as a stack of png’s. Possible? How do I do it?

This is still an area of active research, and I don’t believe there is any turnkey solution implemented in Slicer right now [edit: see link below] . See the paper linked in the post below:

Printing volume renderings in plastic

A question that comes up on this forum from time to time is why we can’t just 3D print the volume rendered view. We explain that most printers today expect STL surface models and we go into the difference between volume rendering and surface segmentation. I wanted to point out some just published research about new printing techniques that are much closer to directly printing out a volume rendering. These are photographs of 3D prints made using this technique: [image] Here’s our paper that…