Short trip in the virtual brain

Work in progress... Cool camera lens effects coupled with ambient occlusion and light emitting objects, thanks to ray-tracing.

Souce code is meant to go Open-source in the next few weeks on the Blue Brain github repository.

Stay tuned!

Stepping into the virtual brain

Abstract:

One of the keys towards understanding how the brain works as a whole is visualisation of how the individual cells function; photo-realistic rendering is therefore important.

Ray-tracing can help to highlight areas of the circuits where cells touch each other and where synapses are being created. In combination with ‘global illumination’, which uses light, shadow, and depth of field effects to simulate photo-realistic images, this technique makes it easier to visualise how the neurons function.

Slides of the talk given in Tokyo, about interactive ray-tracing in the context of brain visualization.