Hello, If I may, I would like to ask the group if there is significant interest in future extensions to Slicer that would bridge the gap to photorealistic rendering? In the ParaView world we’ve been doing work with NVidia’s IndeX and OptiX (volume and surface rendering respectively) and Intel’s OS…

@Dave_DeMarle I will be interested in the seeing these features in the Slicer, especially if they are compatible with the existing volume rendering interface. I think Slicer is indeed the right platform for it. But I think a good photorealistic renderer also can benefit from some sort of a keyframe…

I would be very interested in this as well, as would colleagues here who use Slicer. I can’t speak for medical imaging, but would be very useful in invertebrate and vertebrate zoology and paleontology. If I have specific lighting or surfacing requirements, I usually wind up exporting models to Blend…

I agree with @hherhold , if one is to be prioritized over one I think keyframe editor is a bigger issue for people who wants to do animations of their organism in Slicer.

[image] Dave_DeMarle: do you think that photorealism be a useful tool medical visualization? In medical imaging, photorealistic volume rendering is advertised as “cinematic rendering”. There are mixed results in using it for diagnostics (complex lighting may improve depth perception and even …

I figure I’d bump this thread with some good looking volume renders. One from syngo-via, the other from Inviwo (I think). You will notice the shadows are not harsh, and over all they look a lot more realistic than those paraview examples. Another nice feature would be real time basic lighting for me…

You can actually use lighting with Segment Editor, if you install the Sandbox extension. Here is an example, actual color of the segment is green. [image]

Is there interest in higher quality rendering for Slicer?

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Is there interest in higher quality rendering for Slicer?

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