Create Your Own Volume Rendering (With Python)

For today’s recreational coding exercise, we look at a simple way to create volume renderings to visualize 3D simulation datacubes. This technique is incredibly useful when you have space-filling data you would like to visualize. Such data shows up often in astrophysical datasets but also in other areas of computer graphics and medical data (CT scans and MRIs).

You may find the accompanying Python code on github.

Before diving in, below is a gif of what running the rendering algorithm on some data may look like: