[Bf-committers] Volumetrics update

[Chris Want]

echelon at infomail.upr.edu.cu wrote:
>  I have to made some design desitions for datasets:
> 1-Raw ascii unstructured datasets (slow but very,very flexible and
> powerfull) (is a must)
> 2-make an own file format with the posibility to easy make convertors to
> other formats like DICOM or directly implement support for them ? (I think
> that the first option will be easier because latter with python should be
> ok to make importers and exporters to new file formats or others....)

A while ago I wrote a texture plugin to read/process DICOM files
into a 3D texture using the VTK library. You might consider
using that library to exploit it's file formats and readers.

This is an example of the sort of thing I was doing:

http://bebop.cns.ualberta.ca/~cwant/luis/

If you are interested, the source code of the DICOM reader
plugin is here:

http://bebop.cns.ualberta.ca/~cwant/blender_dicom.tar.gz

Regards,
Chris