The Open Volume Library for Processing Volumetric Data
Sarang Lakare, Arie E. Kaufman · IEEE Visualization · 2003
We present the Open Volume Library (OpenVL) for processing volumetric data and as a framework for collaboration, and shared software development of volumetric data applications. OpenVL provides a comprehensive low-level volume access functionality that is suitable for implementing algorithms and applications that deal with volumetric data, such as accessing a voxel neighborhood, performing certain operations at a given voxel, interpolating data values at non-grid locations, etc. We present OpenVL as a standard platform for collaboration in the community. This is achieved by an extensive plugin framework built into OpenVL. Scientists and researchers can implement their work as OpenVL plugins which others in the community can easily use.