Looking Glass Plugin

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I would like to make a plugin for the Looking Glass its works by rendering out a light field based on 45 horizontal views. I searched and couldn’t find a plugin for paraview as yet.

I think I could create a 45 views in python then stitch them in another application and then send those to the looking glass but that seams to be a very slow workflow.

I think hypothetically if I could work out how to get the views rendered I will be able to create a quilt and send it to the looking glass using the c# plugin

My question is as paraview supports stereo rendering, multiple display systems and VR what would be the best plugin to look at on how create theses 45 views?

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Indeed, creating the quilt would be the way to go, using the C++ API of lookingglass.
The problem is that you will need to regenerate this “quilt” everytime any parameter is changed on ParaView side, I suppose it would still be slow.

I would just create a dock widget plugin widget with a button that create the quilt when pressed. Quite easy to program on ParaView side. Take a look into Example/Plugins/DockWidget