About Voreen

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.

23.12.2009: We are very proud to announce the best Voreen release so far: Voreen 2.0! We have invested a lot of work in the past months to integrate several new features and to re-engineer some of the existing concepts. Among other things, we have added native support for multiple view applications by providing a multi canvas mechanism as well as supporting linking between properties. Furthermore, we have improved the volume handling, the serialization framework and we have added several new processors. Additionally, developing your own processors became more easy. Be sure to read the processor conversion guide in the FAQ section, in order to adapt your old processors. As usual, you can find a detailed list of all changes in the changelog. However, many of the new concepts are now also demonstrated in the new tutorial video section. So please feel free to test Voreen 2.0, and do not hesitate to contact us regarding your feedback! Merry Xmas and a happy new year!

P.S.: The christmas tree scene is based on the data set provided by Vienna University of Technology and has been rendered using an animated Voreen workspace scene, which you can download in the new workspace section.

20.11.2009: We have just released a new Voreen snapshot. This release does not contain any new features, but several bug fixes. Among others, we have improved bricking of large data sets, which now requires less memory, and we have integrated multiple Mac bug fixes. Additionally, we have enabled building Voreen with MinGW, which allows you to use Qt Creator for development. For a complete list of all bug fixes, please see the changelog. Thanks a lot to all users who have helped us to identify these bugs! As usual, installers for Windows and Mac are available in the download section. Of course, you can also update your working copy via our Subversion repository. Unfortunately, there are still some issues with some ATI graphics cards, where artifacts may appear, when enabling the "Camera inside the volume" feature.

Please also watch out for our upcoming Voreen 2.0 release. Within that release we will provide convenient development functionality for multi-view applications. Furthermore, we will provide processors allowing to do basic flow visualization and much more. On a technical level, we have eliminated the messaging system and simplified the implementation of the port concept. We plan and hope to be able to release Voreen 2.0 next month.