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VISUALIZATION
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Curvature-Based Transfer Functions for Direct Volume Rendering: Methods and Applications
Direct volume rendering of scalar fields uses a transfer function to map locally measured data properties to opacities and colors. The domain of the transfer function is typicall...
Gordon L. Kindlmann, Ross T. Whitaker, Tolga Tasdi...
VISUALIZATION
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Acceleration Techniques for GPU-based Volume Rendering
Nowadays, direct volume rendering via 3D textures has positioned itself as an efficient tool for the display and visual analysis of volumetric scalar fields. It is commonly acce...
Jens Krüger, Rüdiger Westermann
PVG
2003
IEEE
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SLIC: Scheduled Linear Image Compositing for Parallel Volume Rendering
Parallel volume rendering offers a feasible solution to the large data visualization problem by distributing both the data and rendering calculations among multiple computers con...
Aleksander Stompel, Kwan-Liu Ma, Eric B. Lum, Jame...
CGI
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Hardware Assisted Multichannel Volume Rendering
We explore real time volume rendering of multichannel data for volumes with color and multi-modal information. We demonstrate volume rendering of the Visible Human Male color data...
Abhijeet Ghosh, Poojan Prabhu, Arie E. Kaufman, Kl...
ISPA
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Parallel Volume Rendering with Early Ray Termination for Visualizing Large-Scale Datasets
Abstract. This paper presents an efficient parallel algorithm for volume rendering of large-scale datasets. Our algorithm focuses on an optimization technique, namely early ray te...
Manabu Matsui, Fumihiko Ino, Kenichi Hagihara
EGH
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Squeeze: numerical-precision-optimized volume rendering
This paper discusses how to squeeze volume rendering into as few bits per operation as possible while still retaining excellent image quality. For each of the typical volume rende...
Ingmar Bitter, Neophytos Neophytou, Klaus Mueller,...
SAC
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Time-varying, multivariate volume data reduction
Large-scale supercomputing is revolutionizing the way science is conducted. A growing challenge, however, is understanding the massive quantities of data produced by largescale si...
Nathaniel Fout, Kwan-Liu Ma, James P. Ahrens
VISUALIZATION
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Volume rendering of smoke propagation CFD data
The evacuation of buildings in the event of a fire requires careful planning of ventilation and evacuation routes during early architectural design stages. Different designs are ...
Oliver Staubli, Christian Sigg, Ronald Peikert, Ma...
VISUALIZATION
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Exploiting Frame-to-Frame Coherence for Accelerating High-Quality Volume Raycasting on Graphics Hardware
GPU-based raycasting offers an interesting alternative to conventional slice-based volume rendering due to the inherent flexibility and the high quality of the generated images. ...
Thomas Klein, Magnus Strengert, Simon Stegmaier, T...
VISUALIZATION
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Scale-Invariant Volume Rendering
As standard volume rendering is based on an integral in physical space (or “coordinate space”), it is inherently dependent on the scaling of this space. Although this dependen...
Martin Kraus