Basic Rendering Process

The five basic steps to rendering are:

• Import or generate data to be rendered. See the section Importing and Generating Data for Rendering for details.

• Manipulate and convert data. This step is optional, depending on the type of data you are using. PV‑WAVE provides several functions and procedures for transforming data to be rendered. See the section, Manipulating and Converting Data for details.

• Set up your data for viewing. See the section Setting Up Data for Viewing for details.

• Use one of the rendering routines to render the image. The rendering routines are:

  • POLY_PLOT

  • POLYSHADE

  • VECTOR_FIELD3

  • VOL_MARKER

  • VOL_REND

  • RENDER

  See the sections Rendering with Standard Techniques and Ray-tracing.

• Display data. See the section Displaying Rendered Images.