If you happen to be in Rhode Island this week for IEEE VisWeek, flag down a Kitware developer and check out their latest foray into OpenGL ES 2.0 support with “VES”. Already at the core of their iPad app “KiwiViewer”, they’ve been busily working on it adding lots of features.
And so, here we are, iterating on our code at high speed to prepare demos for VisWeek. Last week I added support for 2D text annotations using VTK’s freetype classes. The annotations can be anchored to 3D points on a mesh, allowing for updated annotation positions as the camera moves around the scene. This feature was demonstrated in the demo video linked above.
The video also shows some impressive slicing and mesh clipping, adding in new degrees of interactivity with your data. Once they get the Animation support added in, this could be a great way to “share” your data with others in a tight setting.
VES Demonstration from Kitware on Vimeo.
Looking at this demonstration, I was in awe of how this simple to use app can revolutionize education and research. Kudos to the developers..