Interactive Volume Exploration on the StudyDesk

We present the combination of an interaction-rich environment and a volume-rendering library which enables to work in an easier and more natural way on volume data. This paper describes how we combined these packages and points out the advantages of such a combination. We also give a short survey of the state of the art in volume rendering libraries and we explain why we selected SGI Volumizer as the volume rendering library for our volume VR system.