Multiple Updates - Needle Rendering/Integration

Needle Visualization

Now we have the needle visualization along with the medical data rendering. In the video I am moving the slicing plane front and back, so the needle is visible sometimes (when the slicing plane and the needle are nearly in the same plane). As the slicing plane gets near the needle plane the needle visualization becomes brighter and brighter. Also note that the slicing algorithm is capable of changing the needle visualization as the needle penetrates into or off the body.

Integration Methodology

Robin and I have very specific settings for each of our modules, so we decided not to integrate the modules at the code level. So I thought it would be good if we make Robin's module send the data that it captures using Kinect to my module using Shared Memory. After a little searching in the internet, I got a surprisingly easy method to implement shared memory.

In the video above, I created a dummy process, "Data Provider" which just randomly sends data regarding the probe position and orientation. The rendering module is rendering as per the data that it gets from the dummy process.

Now we are going to add the small piece of code in Robin's module so that it can send data to my module.