Title
Efficient quadratic reconstruction and visualization of tetrahedral volume datasets
Abstract
Most volume rendering algorithms for tetrahedral datasets employ linear reconstruction kernels, resulting in quality loss if the data contain fine features of high orders. In this paper, we present an efficient approach to reconstruct and visualize 3D tetrahedral datasets with a quadratic reconstruction scheme. To leverage a quadratic kernel in each tetrahedron, additional nodes with weighting functions are first constructed in the tetrahedron. The integration of quadratic kernels along a ray in a tetrahedron is efficiently accomplished by means of a pre-computation scheme, making the accumulation of optical contributions very fast. Our approach is compatible with both object-space (projected tetrahedra) and image-space (ray casting) volume rendering methods. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach can efficiently achieve volume visualization with more subtle details, and preserve higher accuracy where needed compared with conventional approaches with linear kernels.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/s12650-014-0211-8
Journal of Visualization
Keywords
Field
DocType
Volume rendering,Quadratic reconstruction Kernel,Quadratic interpolation,Partial pre-integration
Applied mathematics,Volume rendering,Visualization,Interpolation,Quadratic equation,Geometry,Tetrahedron,Classical mechanics,Mathematics,Inverse quadratic interpolation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
17
3
1343-8875
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.43
14
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xin Li1393.12
Wei-Feng Chen270.83
Yubo Tao310922.51
Zhiyu Ding460.84