Paper Info
Title
A Direct Volume Rendering Framework For The Interactive Exploration Of Higher-Order And Multifield Data
Abstract
Direct Volume Rendering is a popular method for displaying volumetric data sets without generating intermediate representations. The technique is most frequently applied to scalar data and few specialized techniques exist for visualizing higher-order data, such as tensor fields, directly. This is a serious limitation because progress in medical imaging, satellite technology and numerical simulations has made higher-order and multifield data sets a common entity in medicine, science and engineering.In this paper we present a framework for the interactive exploration of complex data sets using direct volume rendering. This is achieved by applying sophisticated Software Engineering (SE) to modularize the direct volume rendering pipeline and by exploiting the latest advances in graphics hardware and shading languages to modify rendering effects and to compute derived data sets at runtime.We discuss how the framework can be used to mimic the latest specialized direct volume rendering algorithms and to interactively explore and gain new insight into high-order and multifield data sets. The capabilities of the framework are demonstrated by three case studies and the efficiency and effectiveness of the framework is evaluated.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2008
GRAPP 2008: PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
direct volume rendering, visualization tools, vector field visualization, tensor field visualization
Field
DocType
Citations 
Computer graphics (images),Computer science,Computational science,Artificial intelligence,Image-based modeling and rendering,Software rendering,Scientific visualization,Tiled rendering,Computer vision,Parallel rendering,Volume rendering,3D rendering,Rendering (computer graphics)
Conference
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
27
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Felix Manke1212.18
Burkhard Wünsche214724.91