Advanced interactive volume rendering

Realtime volume rendering using:

• Phong and blinn shading. The normal is defined by a vector going from the voxel position to the barycenter of the surrounding voxels, weighted by opacity. I got the idea in the middle of the night, thanks to a strong winter storm that prevented me from getting a good rest, but that seems to work ok :-)

• Soft and hard shadows 

• Deep learning denoiser (OptiX 5)

 Source code: https://github.com/favreau/Brayns/tree/aidenoiser

Demo running on Quadro K6000 NVIDIA GPU (960x540 pixels)

Brayns is rendering everything, everywhere!

Thanks to Docker, Brayns is now available on any platform (Windows, Mac and Linux), in a couple of clicks only:

First download and start the Brayns renderer:
docker pull bluebrain/brayns
docker run -ti --rm -p 8200:8200 bluebrain/brayns

Then download the corresponding web UI:
docker pull bluebrain/sauron
docker run -ti --rm -p 8080:8080 bluebrain/sauron

And connect to the UI using the following address:
http://localhost:8080/?host=localhost:8200

That's it, you're done! Enjoy, and crontribute! :-)

Brayns empowered by OptiX's DLDenoiser

Demo of the OptiX Deep Learning denoiser applied to Brayns. The code is here: 

https://github.com/favreau/Brayns/tree/aidenoiser

Happy new year 2018!

For most people, it is a stretch of the imagination to understand the world in four dimensions but a new study has discovered structures in the brain with up to eleven dimensions -- ground-breaking work that is beginning to reveal the brain's deepest architectural secrets.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170612094100.htm