Wenderer

WebGPU-based SciVis Renderer

Compilation Guide

For installing Rust, please see official guide, which is an oneliner that is different according to OSs.

For running the code, run one of the two lines in the source code directory.

# debug profile
cargo run
# release profile
cargo run --release

The dependencies are managed automatically by cargo according to Cargo.toml.

Interactions

For now, we have simple interactions:

• Press A, D to rotate camera.
• Press W, S to zoom in and out.

Used WebGPU Features

• Textures (1D, 2D, 3D)
• Multi-pass Rendering
• Front-face and back-face Rendering/ Depth Testing
• Render Buffers
• Multisampling
• wgsl shaders

TODOs

• Ray jittering
• Better camera
• Configurable transfer functions
• Configurable volumes

Reference and Acknowledgements

• We thank sotrh@Github for his detailed and nicely-written tutorial about WebGPU and his patience on answering WebGPU questions.
• We thank kvark@Github for helping resolve a key issue in our implementation in the Github Discussion in wgpu.
• For the stag beetle dataset, please see the below reference

  @dataset{dataset-stagbeetle,
    title =      "Stag beetle",
    author =     "Meister Eduard Gr\"{o}ller and Georg Glaeser and Johannes
                 Kastner",
    year =       "2005",
    abstract =   "The stag beetle from Georg Glaeser, Vienna University of
                 Applied Arts, Austria, was scanned with an industrial CT by
                 Johannes Kastner, Wels  College of Engineering, Austria, and
                 Meister Eduard Gr\"{o}ller, Vienna University of Technology,
                 Austria.",
    keywords =   "volume, data set",
    URL =        "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2005/dataset-stagbeetle/",
  }