Yesterday Jason Shepherd at Sandia posted a link to stunning visualizations of an attempt to visualize the 3D Mandelbrot set<br><a href="http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html#renders" target="_blank">http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html#renders</a><br>
<br>Does anybody in the community want to take a stab at adding this capability to VTK? Somewhere out there are hidden geniuses just waiting for a challenge like this, I can feel it :-)<br><br>My initial, uninformed thoughts on this would be to approach it one of two ways:<br>
1. Create an implicit function and then use vtkSampleFunction to sample it. This would provide very quick and dirty initial results and enable us to get out heads around the mathematics.<br>2. Create a custom class to produce a 3D image dataset, and then render it using one of the many rendering techniques in VTK. This would provide greater flexibility in generating and defining data, including producing coloration, etc.<br>
<br>Of course if you're really good you'll do this using the GPU :-) Maybe support streaming to a region, etc. <br><br>I'd love to have this because, well it's really cool :-), but also as a test case/data source for large data, streaming, HPC, volume rendering and so on. If there is interest we'll create some wiki pages and kick the project off.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>William J. Schroeder, PhD<br>Kitware, Inc.<br>28 Corporate Drive<br>Clifton Park, NY 12065<br><a href="mailto:will.schroeder@kitware.com">will.schroeder@kitware.com</a><br><a href="http://www.kitware.com">http://www.kitware.com</a><br>
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