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JoffreyVR
Honored Guest
11 years ago

Data Cube Visualization

Hi everyone,
I was wondering if any of you already had the idea to visualize a data cube within Unity.
It seems to be very interesting but I have no idea how to begin with. I've found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hssIjhsLCes . If you have any idea or experiment, please share :)

- Joffrey

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  • jherico's avatar
    jherico
    Adventurer
    11 years ago
    I don't think Unity is going to be well suited to that kind of scientific visualization. You'll probably want a custom engine that offers lower level rendering primitives or a higher level library designed specifically for that.
  • vrdaveb's avatar
    vrdaveb
    Oculus Staff
    11 years ago
    "JoffreyVR" wrote:
    I was wondering if any of you already had the idea to visualize a data cube within Unity.


    Unity now has what you need to do voxel raycasting in a 3D texture. Here is an example (with source) that does it with DICOM data via GDCOM: https://support.zspace.com/entries/22179173-zSpace-Concepts-Releases

    "jherico" wrote:
    You'll probably want a custom engine that offers lower level rendering primitives or a higher level library designed specifically for that.


    Agreed. There are more data-viz minded platforms out there, such as VTK. Unity has some limitations (.NET version, 3D texture size, etc) that can make this kind of thing tricky.