Voxer

Remote scientific visualization service

This repository only contains the backend service

Getting Started

You can

• build and run the server using Docker
• or build voxer server from source manually

Using the Docker Image

You should use nvidia-docker 2.0 to enable GPU rendering capability. For more information and system requirement about nvidia-docker please check nvidia-docker.

cd voxer
docker build . -t voxer # build the image

Building from Source

Prerequisites

1. Any c++ compiler supporting C++17
2. CMake v3.11 or newer
3. OSPRay >= v1.8.5. (v2.0.0 not supported)
4. zlib
5. NodeJS & npm

Compiling on Linux

$ cd voxer
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake .. \
  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
  -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/target/directory \
  -Dospray_DIR=/path/to/ospray-config.cmake \
$ cmake --build . -j 4
$ cmake --build . --target install # install command

to build voxer-server.

Run the Service

TODO

Citing

If you find voxer useful in your research, you can consider citing:

@article{yang2019voxer,
  title={Voxer—a platform for creating, customizing, and sharing scientific visualizations},
  author={Yang, Weimin and Tao, Yubo and Lin, Hai},
  journal={Journal of Visualization},
  volume={22},
  number={6},
  pages={1161--1176},
  year={2019},
  publisher={Springer}
}