Stretch goals - dostos/volume-rendering-tutorial GitHub Wiki

Shading

  • Get color/opacity from a transfer function
  • Use image gradient as a normal
  • Apply any illumination model that you want
    List of common shading algorithms
  • Pass the result to composite step

GPU Acceleration

  • Ray casting operations are easy to parallelize
  • OpenCL / CUDA

Octree Optimization

octree emptySpace

  • Empty Space Skipping