<div dir="ltr">Try vtkGaussianSplatter. This will splat your points into a structured grid, which you can then volume render.<div><br></div><div>There may be more efficient ways as well that don't go through the intermediate format and render the points (or glyphs of them) directly, but I'd have to hunt around to find them. Try playing with the data in ParaView and something better may come up.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>David E DeMarle<br>Kitware, Inc.<br>R&D Engineer<br>21 Corporate Drive<br>Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662<br>Phone: <a href="tel:518-881-4909" value="+15188814909" target="_blank">518-881-4909</a></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Emma <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:3mmafox@gmail.com" target="_blank">3mmafox@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi!<br>
I have a file with x-, y- and z-coordinates, and every coordinate point have<br>
a value. What is the best way for rendering this as a ray traced cloud?<br>
I want the outcome to look something like this picture i made (Though the<br>
picture was made with a StructuredPoints)<br>
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