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KUS-C1-016-04Date
2009-11Permanent link to this record
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Direct volume rendering and isosurfacing are ubiquitous rendering techniques in scientific visualization, commonly employed in imaging 3D data from simulation and scan sources. Conventionally, these methods have been treated as separate modalities, necessitating different sampling strategies and rendering algorithms. In reality, an isosurface is a special case of a transfer function, namely a Dirac impulse at a given isovalue. However, artifact-free rendering of discrete isosurfaces in a volume rendering framework is an elusive goal, requiring either infinite sampling or smoothing of the transfer function. While preintegration approaches solve the most obvious deficiencies in handling sharp transfer functions, artifacts can still result, limiting classification. In this paper, we introduce a method for rendering such features by explicitly solving for isovalues within the volume rendering integral. In addition, we present a sampling strategy inspired by ray differentials that automatically matches the frequency of the image plane, resulting in fewer artifacts near the eye and better overall performance. These techniques exhibit clear advantages over standard uniform ray casting with and without preintegration, and allow for high-quality interactive volume rendering with sharp C0 transfer functions. © 2009 IEEE.Citation
Knoll A, Hijazi Y, Westerteiger R, Schott M, Hansen C, et al. (2009) Volume Ray Casting with Peak Finding and Differential Sampling. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 15: 1571–1578. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2009.204.Sponsors
This work was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG)through the University of Kaiserslautern International Research TrainingGroup (IRTG 1131); as well as the National Science Foundationunder grants CNS-0615194, CNS-0551724, CCF-0541113, IIS-0513212, and DOE VACET SciDAC, KAUST GRP KUS-C1-016-04.Additional thanks to Liz Jurrus and Tolga Tasdizen for the zebrafishdata, and to the anonymous reviewers for their comments.PubMed ID
19834235ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1109/TVCG.2009.204
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