Retaining the color of the 2d image used for Volume Rendering.

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Hello Everyone:

I am very new to volume rendering, and I was able to render a 3d Volume using stack of 2D images in png format. The resultant 3dVolume is in grey scale, but I want the color of the volume to be same as the image. How should I be able to acheive it? Any help or guidance is appreciated.

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Welcome to VTK, @Saptarshi_Paul!

In your mapper (vtkVolumeMapper?), invoke SetColorModeToDirectScalars(). That should avoid the mapping through the gray scale color map.

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Hello Cory,

Thank you so much for your help. I am using
volumeMapper = vtk.vtkOpenGLGPUVolumeRayCastMapper(), so how will I be able to invoke SetColorModeToDirectScalars(). I will really appreciate if you can guide me through.

Best Regards

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For volume rendering, you can use vtkVolumeProperty::SetIndependentComponents().

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Hello Andras,

I hope you are doing well. I have already set the SetIndependentComponents(). But it still produces the resultant 3dVolume in grey scale.

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Probably you don’t have an alpha channel. See details in this topic: Colored Volume from Tiffstack/MultiImageTiff

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Thank you so much Andras, it worked.
I really appreciate your help.

Best Regards

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Ah, sorry. I remembered the class hierarchy incorrectly.

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Thank you Cory, I really appreciate your help.

Best Regards