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💖 VolPack(3) — volume rendering but make it bestie 💖

okay so this is the manual page for VolPack(3) from the Library Functions Manual, and it's literally your intro to VolPack, the library for volume rendering. Manual name folded in near the top — slay. Now let's go. 🫶

🎀 NAME 🎀

VolPack — introduction to VolPack, a library for volume rendering. That's the whole vibe check, bestie. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <volpack.h>

cc file.c -lvolpack -lm

Include it and link it like that, no cap. 🧚

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

VolPack is a portable software library for volume rendering. It's based on a new family of fast volume rendering algorithms — citation time, bestie: Philippe Lacroute and Marc Levoy, Fast Volume Rendering Using a Shear-Warp Factorization of the Viewing Transformation, Proc. SIGGRAPH '94, in Computer Graphics, Annual Conference Series, 1994, pp. 451-458. For a tutorial introduction to the library, see the VolPack User's Guide. Obsessed. 📚✨

Here's literally every function in the library, grouped by general function, with the corresponding man page each one lives on. 👑

👑 Rendering Contexts 👑

🦋 Volumes 🦋

🌸 Classified Volumes 🌸

🎀 Min-Max Octrees 🎀

🔥 View Transformations 🔥

💡 Shading and Lighting 💡

🌈 Rendering 🌈

⭐ State Variables ⭐

🍓 File I/O 🍓

🧚 Utility Functions 🧚

😭 Error Handling 😭

🙈 Debugging 🙈

🌈 DATA TYPES 🌈

These data types are declared in the VolPack header file (volpack.h), bestie:

  • vpContext — an opaque handle for a rendering context. A context contains all of the information required to render a volume, including classification and shading parameters, the view transformation, a description of the format of the volume data, and private data structures used by the rendering routines. 👑
  • vpResult — a result code. Most of the library routines return the code VP_OK upon successful completion, or an error code if the library call fails.
  • vpVector3 — a three-element linear array of double-precision elements (double[3]).
  • vpVector4 — a four-element linear array of double-precision elements (double[4]).
  • vpMatrix3 — a three-by-three array of double-precision elements (double[3][3]).
  • vpMatrix4 — a four-by-four array of double-precision elements (double[4][4]).

🦋 AVAILABILITY 🦋

Source code and documentation for VolPack are available free via the World Wide Web (http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/software/volpack) or by anonymous ftp (ftp://graphics.stanford.edu/pub/volpack). It's giving free and accessible, periodt. 💖

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

  • VolPack User's Guide

okay bye bestie 🫶 — source/version VolPack, page VolPack(3), and no date printed in this footer, so no fake date energy. Mwah 💋

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