BVTKNodes - photorealistic rendering of VTK data in Blender

[Silvano (Silvano Imboden)]

Hi Terrie
sorry, I searched for the two files you are mentioning, but I cant find them.
( maybe they were included withing Blender 2.8, check it out )
Todays you can find a lot of environment map in the net, please try to use another one.
Best Regards — Silvano

[tsehrhardt (Terrie Simmons-Ehrhardt)]

Thanks for checking!

[lassoan (Andras Lasso)]

Follow-up on this: volume colorization and SSAO prototype is now available in VTK + 3D Slicer and the results are very impressive. Quality is comparable to (and in some aspects better than) other “cinematic” medical image renderings and its computational cost is very low. See details in this topic:

How to perform cinematic rendering(photorealistic volume rendering) of medical images using open source?

I’ve tried to use these multiple scattering approximations in ParaView, but the resulting images looked messy and artificial. The computation was also really slow and on some computers it did not work at all. Most of the medical examples that were showcased in Kitware blogs looked quite odd, too, they looked different but not really better than plain volume rendering. With the help of @pieper and @LucasGandel we implemented two improvements in VTK and 3D Slicer that dramatically improve clarity…