SoOrthoSlice(3)

💅 SoOrthoSlice — NAME ✨

okay bestie, meet SoOrthoSlice (that's the SoOrthoSlice(3) manual page, we're in section 3, library functions, iykyk) — it renders one orthogonal slice of the volume data. one slice. iconic behavior. 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <VolumeViz/nodes/SoOrthoSlice.h>

✨ Public Types ✨

• enum Axis { X = 0, Y, Z }
• enum Interpolation { NEAREST, LINEAR }
• enum AlphaUse { ALPHA_AS_IS, ALPHA_OPAQUE, ALPHA_BINARY }
• enum ClippingSide { FRONT, BACK }

🫶 Public Member Functions 🫶

• virtual SbBool affectsState (void) const

⭐ Static Public Member Functions ⭐

• static void initClass (void)

💖 Public Attributes 💖

• SoSFUInt32 sliceNumber
• SoSFEnum axis
• SoSFEnum interpolation
• SoSFEnum alphaUse
• SoSFEnum clippingSide
• SoSFBool clipping
• SoSFNode alternateRep

🌈 Protected Member Functions 🌈

• virtual void doAction (SoAction *action)
• virtual void GLRender (SoGLRenderAction *action)
• virtual void rayPick (SoRayPickAction *action)
• virtual void generatePrimitives (SoAction *action)
• virtual void computeBBox (SoAction *action, SbBox3f &box, SbVec3f &center)
• virtual void write (SoWriteAction *action)
• virtual SbBool readInstance (SoInput *in, unsigned short flags)

👑 Friends 👑

• class SoOrthoSliceP

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💜 Detailed Description 💜

Render one orthogonal slice of the volume data.

so like. drop a node of this type into your scene graph after an SoVolumeData node, and boom — you get a single, axis-aligned slice carved out of the whole volume data set. it's giving "one perfect cross-section" energy. 🔥

here's a lil simple example, as an iv-file:

#Inventor V2.1 ascii

SoVolumeData { fileName "ENGINE.VOL" }
SoTransferFunction { predefColorMap TEMPERATURE }

SoOrthoSlice { sliceNumber 0 }

Translation { translation 5 0 0 }

SoOrthoSlice { sliceNumber 10 }

and when you load that into an examinerviewer, you get something like this:

(yes bestie, there's a picture in the original right here — a whole visual moment 📸)

🌸 See also 🌸

• SoVolumeRender

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🍓 Member Data Documentation 🍓

💫 SoSFUInt32 SoOrthoSlice::sliceNumber

decides where the slice will be made through the volume. like, which layer we're peeking at. 👀

default value is 0.

💫 SoSFEnum SoOrthoSlice::axis

decides which plane the orthonormal slice will show. the plane will be the one perpendicular to the axis — so if this field is set to SoOrthoSlice::Z, the slice will lay in the X-Y plane. math girlies rise. 📐

default value is SoOrthoSlice::Z.

💫 SoSFEnum SoOrthoSlice::alphaUse

decides how to handle the alpha values of the slice. the options, bestie:

• set it to SoOrthoSlice::ALPHA_AS_IS and the slice gets rendered as a regular texture.
• set it to SoOrthoSlice::ALPHA_BINARY and all texels with alpha != 0 become opaque.
• set it to SoOrthoSlice::ALPHA_OPAQUE and all texels become opaque, no matter what the original alpha value was. full coverage, no transparency, periodt.

default value is SoOrthoSlice::ALPHA_BINARY.

💫 SoSFNode SoOrthoSlice::alternateRep

⚠️ NOTE: support for this field not yet implemented in SIM Voleon. don't come for me, it's literally in the source. 😭

Since

SIM Voleon 2.0

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🌟 Author 🌟

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and that's the whole page, bestie — signed off with SIMVoleon, Version 2.1.0, dated SoOrthoSlice(3). slay, go render a slice. 💅🦋💖