【Visualization Library】一个基于OpenGL和C++的轻型图形库

Visualization Library is a C++ middleware for high-performance 2D and 3D graphics applications based on the industry standard OpenGL 2.1, designed to develop portable applications for the Windows, Linux and Mac OS X operating systems.

 

Short Feature List

 

• 3D file formats supported: 3DS, OBJ, PLY (binary and ascii), STL (binary and ascii), AC3D, MD2.
• Image file formats supported: JPG, PNG, TGA, TIFF, BMP, DDS, DICOM.
• GUI bindings: Win32, MFC, Qt4, wxWidgets, SDL, GLUT, Cocoa.
• Volume visualization: direct volume rendering via screen aligned slices, isosurface extraction via marching cubes.
• Virtual File System: read/write disk files and directories, read zip files and directories, read/write memory files and directories, read/write gz files.
• Texturing: 1D, 2D, 3D textures, cubemaps, texture arrays, texture rectangles, multi-texturing, render to texture, texture coordinate generation, texture combiners, mipmapping and mipmaps generation, anisotropic filtering, compressed textures, depth textures, integer textures, non normalized textures.
• OpenGL Shading Language support.
• Geometry Shaders support.
• GLSL multiple render targets.
• OpenGL accelerated 2D vector graphics.
• Multisampling.
• Framebuffer Objects support.
• Vertex Buffer Objects support.
• Pixel Buffer Objects support.
• Display Lists support.
• Hierachical frustum culling against boxes and spheres.
• Multiple cameras, multiple scene managers, multiple renderings.
• High quality unicode text rendering and text manipulation functions and classes.
• GLSL based C++ vector/matrix library.
• Hierachical bounding volume scene manager.
• Kd-Tree hierachical scene manager.
• Portal/sector scene manager.
• Kd-Tree based terrain scene manager (with GPU acceleration if available).
• Hierarchical matrix transformations.
• Morphing animations (with GPU acceleration if available).
• Geometry instancing.
• Geometry Level of Detail.
• Shader Level of Deatil.
• Multipassing.
• Render state sorting and minimization.
• Automatic transparency management.
• Billboards.
• Clipping planes.
• All OpenGL lighting models/materials supported.
• Extensible resource system to support new resource types.
• Geometry optimization functions, triangle reduction/decimation, double vertex removal etc.
• Rich image manipulation routines.
• Molecular visualization.
• Extrusion generation.
• Linear and Catmull-Rom path interpolation.
• Bicubic Bézier surfaces.
• Edge and silhouette enhancement.

网址：http://www.visualizationlibrary.org/documentation/index.html