Editing Volume rendering (section)

== List of related software ==

; Open source
* [[3D Slicer]] – a software package for scientific visualization and image analysis
* [[ClearVolume]] – a GPU ray-casting based, live 3D visualization library designed for high-end volumetric light sheet microscopes. 
* [[ParaView]] – a cross-platform, large data analysis and visualization application. ParaView users can quickly build visualizations to analyze their data using qualitative and quantitative techniques. ParaView is built on VTK (below).
* [[Studierfenster|Studierfenster (StudierFenster)]] – a free, non-commercial Open Science client/server-based Medical Imaging Processing (MIP) online framework.
* [[Vaa3D]] – a 3D, 4D and 5D volume rendering and image analysis platform for gigabytes and terabytes of large images (based on OpenGL) especially in the microscopy image field. Also cross-platform with Mac, Windows, and Linux versions. Include a comprehensive plugin interface and 100 plugins for image analysis. Also render multiple types of surface objects.
* [[VisIt]] – a cross-platform interactive parallel visualization and graphical analysis tool for viewing scientific data.
* [[Volume cartography]] – an open source software used in recovering the [[En-Gedi Scroll]]. 
* [[Voreen]] – a cross-platform rapid application development framework for the interactive visualization and analysis of multi-modal volumetric data sets. It provides GPU-based volume rendering and data analysis techniques
* [[VTK]] – a general-purpose C++ toolkit for data processing, visualization, 3D interaction, computational geometry, with Python and Java bindings. Also, VTK.js provides a JavaScript implementation.

; Commercial
* [[Amira (Software)|Amira]] – a 3D visualization and analysis software for scientists and researchers (in life sciences and biomedical)
* [[Imaris]] – a scientific software module that delivers all the necessary functionality for data management, visualization, analysis, segmentation and interpretation of 3D and 4D microscopy datasets
* [[MeVisLab]] – cross-platform software for medical image processing and visualization (based on OpenGL and Open Inventor)
* [[Open Inventor]] – a high-level 3D API for 3D graphics software development (C++, .NET, Java)
* [[ScanIP]] – an image processing and [[image-based meshing]] platform that can render scan data (MRI, CT, Micro-CT...) in 3D directly after import.
[[Image:V3d-display 01.png|thumb|250px|Example of a fly brain rendered with its compartments' surface models using Vaa3D]]
* [[tomviz]] – a 3D visualization platform for scientists and researchers that can utilize Python scripts for advanced 3D data processing.
* [[VoluMedic]] – a volume slicing and rendering software