Jim,

Thanks for your help, I am compiling povray now and will try it
asap.

chris


> I use POV-Ray for rendering 3D isosurfaces and spatial extents from
> volumetric data for various quantum molecular electronic properties such as
> orbital density, electrostatic potentials, etc.
>
> POV-Ray is primarily a 3D surface modeler.  Virtually all the work you see
> from POVRay utilizes surfaces generated from primitive shapes or
> isosurfaces.  You could generate an isosurface from your volumetric data and
> render that. There is a patch for POVRay that will generate isosurfaces from
> volumetric data. Also, POVRay has just introduced a 'volumetric rendering'
> capability called media.  I have used it for volumetric rendering but have
> found it to be unsatisfying for if one wishes to discern structural
> information within the volume being rendered.  I find a combination of
> isosurfaces and media to be best for my uses.
>
> After examination of your images, it would seem they may be amenable to
> isosurfacing and then rendering with POVRay.  I'd suggest you give it a try!
> If you need any help, feel free to contact me.
>
> --
> Jim
>
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> Christian Wietholt wrote in message <3731C30F.B44F2F04@image.bien.mu.edu>...
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am chris, and I would like to find a good tool to render large
> >image volumes from a CT scanner. The volumes I am working
> >with are in raw data and have a size of about 500x500x500 voxel.
> >
> >I allready did some segmentation with it on my SGI O2 so that
> >I have binary volumes. I can store them with 8 Bit per voxel or
> >with 1 Bit per Voxel. After the segmentation I render theses
> >volumes with IDL on a NT machine. The result you can see on
> >my webpage:
> >
> >    http://perception.bien.mu.edu/~chris
> >
> >But I would like to render them on my SGI instead an now I am
> >looking for a nice tool to render these volumes. Of course there
> >is IDL for IRIX, but not in our department, and is IDL really a
> >nice tool ?? So I heard about povray and I would like to know
> >if there is any chance to do this job by using PovRay?
> >
> >I will appreciate any help or commands.
> >
> >    chris
> >
> >
> >
> >

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