GPU-accelerated single-pass volumetric raycasting in Qt and OpenGL

Implementing a simple, yet easy to extend visualiser

Visualisation is a complementary but very important part of my work on image analysis. And since I work mainly with tridimensional volume images, visualisation is inherently a more complicated task compared to image analysis in only two dimensions. To help my work, I decided to implement a small tool for... [Read More]

Building a Python C extension module with CMake

Extending Python, with automatic cross-platform configuration

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Python is a high-level programming language whose extremely simple and elegant yet very powerful and expressive syntax has granted it enormous popularity in most programming contexts. Scientific applications are no exception on this respect, and this may look strange at a first glance, given that Python’s runtime is painfully slow... [Read More]
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