The Visualization Lab is equipped with the following software tools:

Blender with Eevee (OpenGL) renderer

Blender is a free and open-source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modelling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, and video editing and 2D animation pipeline.

The Blender’s viewport (Eevee, Workbench) supports OpenGL Quad Buffer, and it is suiaeble for stereo 3D displays.

Blender with CyclesPhi (path-tracing) renderer

Rendering in the Blender’s viewport using the Cycles path-tracing renderer does not support OpenGL Quad Buffer. We have extended our version of Cycles, called CyclesPhi, for support of remote rendering and OpenGL Quad Buffer for stereo 3D display.

Paraview

ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application. ParaView users can quickly build visualizations to analyze their data using qualitative and quantitative techniques.

ParaView’s viewport supports OpenGL Quad Buffer for stereo 3D display.

sView

sView is an open-source universal viewer/player, which supports many file types including images, video, and audio. It has been designed for 3D stereoscopic displays.

sView supports OpenGL Quad Buffer for stereo 3D display.

COVISE, COVER

COVISE is an open-source software and stands for COllaborative VIsualization and Simulation Environment. It is a parallel and extendable distributed software environment that integrates simulations, postprocessing, and visualization functionalities in a seamless manner.

COVISE with OpenCOVER renderer supports OpenGL Quad Buffer for stereo 3D display.

Ansys EnSight

Ansys EnSight is a user-friendly, market-leading data visualization tool. It can handle large simulation datasets from all physics and engineering disciplines.

Ansys EnSight directly or via moreViz supports OpenGL Quad Buffer for stereo 3D display.

moreViz

The moreViz VR bridge software is a general tool designed to display the 3D content of any OpenGL application on our stereoscopic 3D powerwall or in a VR headsets.

The selected application does not have to have native support for the stereoscopic or VR display.

The moreViz VR bridge supports OpenGL Quad Buffer for stereo 3D display.

Meshlab

Meshlab is an open-source system for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes. It provides a set of tools for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering, texturing, and converting meshes. It offers features for processing raw data produced by 3D digitisation tools/devices and for preparing models for 3D printing.

Meshlab via moreViz supports OpenGL Quad Buffer for stereo 3D display.

3D Slicer

3D Slicer is a free, open-source, and multi-platform software package widely used for medical, biomedical, and related imaging research.

StereoViewing module supports OpenGL Quad Buffer (CrysalEyes) for stereo 3D display.

VMD

VMD is an open-source molecular visualization program for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3D graphics and built-in scripting. VMD is distributed free of charge, and includes source code.

VMD supports OpenGL Quad Buffer for stereo 3D display.

OVITO

OVITO is a scientific data visualization and analysis software for molecular and other particle-based simulation models, which are typically used in computational materials science, physics, and chemistry disciplines.