Hi,
I am finally beginning to join together two of the projects I spend
most of my time on! I have uploaded an Avogadro VTK extension to
Github.
This is an early prototype, and I will be adding more in terms of
integration and user interface. What it shows is an extension that
takes the first cube from an Avogadro molecule, and moves it into a
VTK data type, and then uses the GPU accelerated volume rendering
(falling back to CPU when necessary) to show the cube data (MO,
electron density etc). This is currently a purely VTK based render
window, and I am hoping to add a reasonable way to render more in this
window/integrate it with Avogadro more.
You will need a recent version of VTK (preferably from a recent Git
master build) to use the latest volume rendering code. This will
shortly become VTK 5.8.0. I will blog about this in the not too
distant future, with some screenshots. It looks very nice, and only
took an afternoon to put together. The integration will likely take
longer, but I couldn’t wait much longer to talk about it!
Thanks,
Marcus
Marcus D. Hanwell, Ph.D.
R&D Engineer, Kitware Inc.
(518) 881-4937