About Voreen

VoreenVE screenshotVoreen is an open source volume rendering engine which allows interactive visualization of volumetric data sets with high flexibility when integrating new visualization techniques. It is implemented as a multi-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac) C++ library using OpenGL and GLSL for GPU-based rendering, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

To see what Voreen can do, take a look at the video tutorials, the gallery, the getting started guide, or just download Voreen and try it out yourself!

The Voreen project emerged from the project Z1 "Interactive 3D-visualization of medical imaging data for the non-invasive analysis of cardiovascular processes and structures" being part of the collaborative research center SFB 656 MoBil - Molecular Cardiovascular Imaging. It has been initiated and is maintained by the Visualization and Computer Graphics Research Group (VisCG) at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Münster.

News

  • Paper accepted at IEEE Vis 2010
    16.07.2010: Our paper entitled "Uncertainty-Aware Guided Volume Segmentation" volume segmentation has been accepted to be presented at this years IEEE Visualization conference. Jörg-Stefan Praßni will give the presentation.


  • Voreen 2.5 out now
    13.07.2010: We have just released Voreen 2.5. It contains several new features, such as animation scripting, multi-volume rendering, aggregation of subnetworks and much more. For a complete list of features, please have a look at the Changelog. To make Voreen more modular, we have revised the directory structure as well as the module concept. Please see http://www.voreen.org/402-Adding-a-Module.html on how to generate your own modules containing custom processors.


  • Gallery Updates
    21.04.2010: We have added some rendering results from our most recent papers to the gallery.


  • 3 Papers accepted at VG 2010
    29.03.2010: Three papers have been accepted to the IEEE/EG International Symposium on Volume Graphics 2010. The papers deal with GPU-based lossless compression of large volumes, efficient computation of local histograms as well as advanced material properties. See our publication section for more details.


  • Voreen 2.01 maintenance release

    01.02.2010: Several smaller issues were fixed in this maintenance release (see the changelog for details). Special thanks to all the people who sent in feedback and bug reports!

    There is a new example workspace in the workspace section that demonstrates the Flowreen flow visualization component of Voreen using 3D streamlines.



Older news entries can be found in the archive.