# Maximum Intensity Projection for volume rendering

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/maximum-intensity-projection-for-volume-rendering/986
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [November 29, 2018, 11:53pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/maximum-intensity-projection-for-volume-rendering/986 "2018-11-29T23:53:05Z")
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### Author: ![david-hoffman](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/david-hoffman/32/902_2.png) [@david-hoffman](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/david-hoffman)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2018, 11:53pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/maximum-intensity-projection-for-volume-rendering/986/1 "2018-11-29T23:53:05Z")

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Is there any way to do a maximum intensity projection in ParaView? This is a function that’s supported by other visualization packages such as Arivis, Amira, Imaris.

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### Author: ![wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/8e8cbc/32.png) [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2018, 12:30am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/maximum-intensity-projection-for-volume-rendering/986/2 "2018-11-30T00:30:26Z")

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David,  
I believe the answer is no. This sounds like a valuable feature for ParaView, so I wrote it up here: [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/18639](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/18639). Note that it is currently unfunded.

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### Author: ![wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/8e8cbc/32.png) [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2025, 2:31am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/maximum-intensity-projection-for-volume-rendering/986/3 "2025-01-22T02:31:44Z")

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Moving MIP from being a gitlab feature request (unfunded) to a discourse discussion.

> [@Please implement MIP (Maximum Intensity Projections)](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/please-implement-mip-maximum-intensity-projections/16015):
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> Please implement Maximum Intensity Projections (MIP). @kmorel knows what this is. Here are a few of his notes to me over skype: Maximum intensity projection is a way to do volume rendering (sort of). Short answer, I don’t think that is exposed in ParaView. Longer answer of what MIP is. In our volume rendering we use an absorption - emission model where as light passes through the volume, some of the light gets reduced (absorbed) and other light gets added (emission). In MIP, as the ray pass…