Getting sketchfab data into Slicer

[muratmaga]

SKetchfab uses a format called .gltf, which Slicer doesn’t seem to recognize. What would it take to support that?

[pieper (Steve Pieper (Isomics, Inc.))]

That should become available when we upgrade to the latest VTK. If it’s really in the critical path we could maybe add the classes directly to slicer (under a mangled name) as a workaround.

Transferring models using glTF 2.0

To follow up on an email from @pieper from 2017 Transferring models is still a work in progress, but lately I’m looking at glTF [5] as an interesting option. I would like to mention that VTK has an improved support for glTF 2.0. It should be possible to create a Slicer extension leveraging the new vtkGLTFReader, vtkGLTFImporter and vtkGLTFExporter classes. You can read more details about the functionality here: https://blog.kitware.com/introducing-gltf-2-0-support-in-vtk-and-paraview

[lassoan (Andras Lasso)]

We have already backported gltf support from latest VTK version in OpenAntomy extension.

I’ve recently added support scripted file reader plugins, so it should be easy to add a script that makes gltf files loadable via “Add data” dialog.

[pieper (Steve Pieper (Isomics, Inc.))]

Cool, yes, we should be able to do a qSlicerScriptedFileReader for that.

[muratmaga]

Sounds great. @pieper let’s talk about this sometime this week.