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<p>Hi,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/23/2018 07:00 PM, Brecht Van
Lommel wrote:<br>
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<div>This year 3 summer of code projects were accepted for
Cycles:<br>
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href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/4824370443190272/"
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...<br>
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<div>Further Development for Cycles' Volume Rendering<br>
Geraldine Chua<br>
Mentor: Lukas Stockner<br>
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This is great news! <br>
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At this very moment me and my colleague are giving a blender course
for scientific visualization (in Amsterdam) and have had to
disappoint a number of researchers that work with volumetric data.
There is definitely demand/interest in general volume data support
for Blender as well, not just Cycles, judging by publications like
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.06965.pdf">https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.06965.pdf</a> (a 14-page description on how
to use the Blender Voxel format when using BI rendering). So any
steps forward in getting more general volume data and rendering
support in Blender and Cycles would be awesome!<br>
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Btw, if the GSOC student would like to test with scientific
volumetric data at some point then we can easily provide test sets.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Paul<br>
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