What is OpenGL Volumizer 2.x?
Released at SIGGRAPH 2001, OpenGL Volumizer 2.0 was a completely new API which provided a higher level of abstraction for volume rendering. OpenGL Volumizer is a high-level volume rendering application programming interface (API) for the energy, medical, and sciences markets. OpenGL Volumizer is a revolutionary graphics API that ushers in groundbreaking capabilities for traditional volume visualization applications and allows standard graphics applications to treat volumetric and surface data in a similar fashion. OpenGL Volumizer is a high-level, C++, volume-rendering API that supports visualization of large volumetric datasets. It is designed to scale with SGI® high-end systems, including systems based on SGI® IRIX® and the SGI Visualization System for Linux, as well as support 32-bit Linux systems to facilitate easy application development. It forms the foundation of a powerful suite of tools and features for creating high quality interactive volume visualization applications on IRI