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

Any c++ compiler supporting C++17
CMake v3.11 or newer
OSPRay >= v1.8.5. (v2.0.0 not supported)
zlib
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}
}

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