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Re: Top 10 IDL Requests [message #20812 is a reply to message #20666]

Tue, 25 July 2000 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Richard Tyc (richt@sbrc.umanitoba.ca) writes:

> My two bits would be increased performance for Object graphics especially
> volume objects which do not make use of any OpenGL hardware acceleration so
> volume rendering speeds are quite slow even on multi CPU machines.
> This would greatly help in developing medical imaging apps where volume
> rendering MRI/CT data sets is becoming quite common.

My understanding is that not only are object graphic
volumes written to take advantage of OpenGL hardware
acceleration, but they are also the only thing in IDL
that is multi-tasking. Volume rendering can be parsed
out to multiple CPUs on machines that support them.

Cheers,

David

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