Volume Rendering

[NAThompson]

I would like to have a 3D scalar field visualized using volume rendering. It is sufficient for the grid to be rectilinear rather than arbitrarily unstructured. An MIT-licensed extension to Three.js is available here which could hopefully work.

Here is a nice example motivated by medical imaging.

[NAThompson]

Patchfile for this feature attached, along with a picture produced by the patch:

volume-rendering.patch

[NAThompson]

@axelboc , @loichuder : This kinda puts H5Web on the path of a Paraview competitor-with a better fundamental datastructure under the hood. You could also imagine isocontouring being a followup.

Let me know if you enjoy-no need to merge on a short timescale.

[loichuder]

Thanks for the patch @NAThompson !

We will check it out and come back to you in the following weeks.