Voreen

Volume Rendering Engine

MoBilThe goal of the Voreen project is to develop an open source volume rendering engine which allows interactive visualization of volumetric data sets by allowing high flexibility when integrating new visualization techniques.

Voreen 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.

Latest News

  • Course at SIGGRAPH 2009

    23.04.2009: We will present a course on advanced illumination techniques for GPU-based volume raycasting at SIGGRAPH 2009 in New Orleans.  The presenters will be: Markus Hadwiger, Timo Ropinski, Patric Ljung and Christof Rezk-Salama.

  • EGUK TPCG Paper

    16.04.2009: A paper on multimodal closeup visualization, which describes the outcome of a cooperation with the Visualization group in Bergen, Norway and the University Hospital in Bergen, Norway, has been accepted at EGUK Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2009.

  • EG 2009 Tutorial Notes online

    19.02.2009: The website for the Eurographics 2009 tutorial on "GPU-Based Volume Ray-Casting with Advanced Illumination" is now online. At the website you also find the tutorial notes. You'll find the website at www.voreen.org/eg09-tutorial.

  • New Voreen snapshot released

    13.02.2009: We have once again prepared a snapshot of the Voreen source code. As release highlights we would like to point out the redesigned GUI for the VoreenVE application and the label rendering (there is an example file in the Data Sets section, see the changelog for how to load it). Additionally, the Mac support was improved, though there are still some issues with ATI graphics cards on this platform. You can find more details in the changelog. The Subversion repository has moved to a new, less complicated URL, see the download page. This release requires Qt 4.3 (but 4.4 is highly recommended) and GLEW 1.5.

  • Course at Eurographics 2009

    19.12.2008: The course on advanced illumination techniques for GPU-based volume raycasting has been accepted for presentation at Eurographics 2009. The course is conducted by researchers from the VRVis Research Centre in Vienna, Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, the University of Siegen and the University of Münster.