Paper Info
Title
Fast time-dependent isosurface extraction and rendering.
Abstract
For the visualisation of time-dependent data sets, interactive isosurface extraction and rendering is desirable. It allows the user to study the development of a surface shape in time, such as a moving front or an evolving object shape. For this purpose, the user must be able to interactively specify an isovalue, and a sequence of isosurfaces must be visualised, starting from any time step, in forward or backward direction in time. In this paper, we describe efficient and tightly coupled techniques for time-dependent isosurface extraction and rendering at interactive frame rates. In preprocessing, we create data structures from a time-dependent data set that allow real-time extraction of all isovalue-spanning cells, achieving rates of several hundreds of frames per second. These isovalued cells are then passed to a fast hardware-assisted direct point rendering algorithm for display, thus avoiding time expensive surface construction by triangulation. This algorithm makes effective use of the available graphics hardware.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1145/1037210.1037217
SCCG
Keywords
Field
DocType
real-time extraction,time expensive surface construction,interactive frame rate,time-varying data sets,volume rendering,time step,rendering algorithm,isosurface extraction,data structure,interactive isosurface extraction,time-dependent data set,object shape,visualisation,time-dependent isosurface extraction,frames per second,real time,graphics hardware
Computer vision,Volume rendering,Computer graphics (images),Graphics hardware,Real-time rendering,Visualization,Computer science,Alternate frame rendering,Isosurface,Artificial intelligence,Software rendering,Rendering (computer graphics)
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-967-5
3
0.41
References 
Authors
14
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Benjamin Vrolijk142617.13
Charl P. Botha218219.15
Frits H. Post31389111.99