Shaded volume rendering is the SDK’s main three-dimensional visualization approach. Based of a set of configurable render parameters it lets you create high-quality images of a given volume. The 3mensio SDK™’s efficient use of the underlying graphics hardware ensures that your software can remain interactive despite the high computational cost of performing volume rendering.

In order to precisely tailor the image to your application’s requirements, the SDK lets you specify an opacity curve (also known as a transfer function) to control the way in which scalar voxel values are mapped into colors and opacities. This opacity curve can be modified in real time for efficient exploration of a dataset. In addition, the SDK provides customizable lighting control to maximize the 3D effect of the image.