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A hardware-assisted hybrid rendering technique for interactive volume visualization

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Patrick S. McCormickAuthors Info & Claims

VVS '02: Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE symposium on Volume visualization and graphics

Pages 123 - 130

Published: 28 October 2002 Publication History

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The scientific simulation and three-dimensional imaging systems in use today are producing large quantities of data that range from gigabytes to petabytes in size. Direct volume rendering, using hardware-based three-dimensional textures, is a common technique for interactively exploring these data sets. The most serious drawback of this approach is the finite amount of available texture memory. In this paper we introduce a hybrid volume rendering technique based on the use of hardware texture mapping and point-based rendering. This approach allows us to leverage the performance of hardware-based volume rendering and the flexibility of a point-based rendering to generate a more efficient representation that makes possible interactive exploration of large-scale data using a single PC.

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Index Terms

A hardware-assisted hybrid rendering technique for interactive volume visualization
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Computer vision representations
        Shape representations
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Image manipulation
      1. Texturing
    2. Rendering
      1. Ray tracing

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VVS '02: Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE symposium on Volume visualization and graphics

October 2002

144 pages

ISBN:0780376412

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Roger Crawfis
The Ohio State University
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Chris Johnson
Univerity of Utah
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Klaus Mueller
State University of New York - Stony Brook

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