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SIM Voleon 2.0.0
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Release Notes
| State | Final release |
|---|---|
| License | GPL and SIM Voleon Professional Edition License |
| Released | 2004/10/13 |
SIM Voleon is an add-on library to Systems in Motion's visualization platform technology, known as "Coin". Coin is a high-level 3D graphics library with a C++ Application Programming Interface. Its target audience is developers of 3D graphics applications worldwide.
The software has the following major features
* Fully portable over the full range of platforms also supported by the Coin library, including all versions of Microsoft Windows, Apple's Mac OS X, Linux, Sun Solaris, SGI IRIX, and most other UNIX variants.
* Integrates smoothly with traditional polygonal 3D data visualization from the Coin library, in a manner which is effortless for the application programmer.
* Provides interaction possibilities for direct queries in the 3D scene on the volumetric data.
* Volumes are visualized by using functionality which is assisted by dedicated 3D hardware on most modern graphics cards, namely 2D texture mapping.
* Higher quality and better performance visualization is automatically done on graphics card which supports hardware assisted 3D texture mapping. For a full overview of the API, see http://doc.coin3d.org
Major new features for version 2.0.0
* SoObliqueSlice node: for rendering planes slicing through the volume at any orientation. (This node complements the SoOrthoSlice node, which does slicing perpendicular to the principal axes.)
* SoVolumeFaceSet, SoVolumeIndexedFaceSet, SoVolumeTriangleStripSet and SoVolumeIndexedTriangleStripSet nodes: these nodes renders any polygon geometry in the volume, textured with the voxels' color mappings. They are useful for implementing features like the "fence diagrams" in seismic modeling and interpretation, and for numerous other tasks.
* SoVolumeSkin node: for quick rendering of the outer "shell" of a volume, useful for e.g. optimized rendering of fully opaque volumes, or for quick rendering during camera movement
* Many bugfixes
