Volume Rendering and Loadable Modules: (Engineering & Usability Notes)

Volume Rendering

Slicer 3.4 Release Priorities

• Fixing the progress bar
• Software rendering is slower now that it was in previous version. Need to make sure that performance is optimized for release.

Additional issues

• When a render method is selected, a request render event needs to be triggered so viewer is updated
• Render options should switch on the selected renderer so that inapplicable options are hidden, and only relevant ones are exposed.
• In the 'Help' panel, would be nice to describe each render method so that they are demystified
• In 'Details' panel, when switching to a new tab, need to keep scrollbar position in the tab being exited, so same view is displayed next time user returns to that tab.