The Parallel Volume Raycaster is a raycaster that specializes in rendering volumetric data. It can be run either as a standalone program, or as a rendering server for clients such as Volume Rover. It can combine shaded and unshaded volume rendering with isosurfaces.

Features

• Runs single threaded, or in parallel using MPI
• No graphics hardware required. All rendering is done in software.
• Combined volume rendering and isosurface rendering
• Shaded or unshaded volume rendering
• CORBA interface for coupling with external clients

References, available on CVC Publications

• C. Bajaj, Insung Ihm, Sanghun Park, Dongsub Song
  Compression-Based Ray Casting of Very Large Volume Data in Distributed Environments
  
• Sanghun Park, C. Bajaj, Insung Ihm
  Effective Visualization of Very Large Oceanography Time-Varying Volume Dataset