# Looking Glass Plugin
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/looking-glass-plugin/3333
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [January 14, 2020, 12:53am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/looking-glass-plugin/3333 "2020-01-14T00:53:48Z")
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### Author:  [@DrMarcHolmes](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/DrMarcHolmes)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2020, 12:53am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/looking-glass-plugin/3333/1 "2020-01-14T00:53:48Z")
I would like to make a plugin for the [Looking Glass](https://lookingglassfactory.com/) 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](https://docs.lookingglassfactory.com/HoloPlayCAPI/guides/howto/)
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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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2020, 9:10am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/looking-glass-plugin/3333/2 "2020-01-14T09:10:44Z")
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