Real-Time Volume Rendering of Time-Varying Data Using a Fragment-Shader Compression Approach Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:5904129, abstract = {The recent advance of graphics hardware allowed real-time volume rendering of structured grids using a 3D texturing approach. The next challenging problem is to extend the algorithms to time-varying volumetric data (4D functions), which consume more storage and are not directly supported in current graphics hardware. In this work we present a new visualization technique that includes (1) a compression scheme of sparse 4D functions into 3D textures, and (2) a visualization algorithm that decompress the stored data from the 3D textures using the programmability of fragment shaders, allowing real-time visualization of such data. We illustrate the system in action with datasets resulting from computational fluid dynamics simulations.}, address = {Washington, DC, USA}, author = {Binotto, Binotto and Comba, Joao L. D. and Freitas, Carla M. D.}, booktitle = {PVG '03: Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics}, citeulike-article-id = {5904129}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1081407.1081417}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVGS.2003.1249044}, doi = {10.1109/PVGS.2003.1249044}, isbn = {0-7695-2091-X}, keywords = {4d, real, rendering, time, volume}, pages = {10+}, posted-at = {2009-10-07 01:45:20}, priority = {2}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, title = {Real-Time Volume Rendering of Time-Varying Data Using a Fragment-Shader Compression Approach}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVGS.2003.1249044}, year = {2003} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:5904129 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5904129 N2 - The recent advance of graphics hardware allowed real-time volume rendering of structured grids using a 3D texturing approach. The next challenging problem is to extend the algorithms to time-varying volumetric data (4D functions), which consume more storage and are not directly supported in current graphics hardware. In this work we present a new visualization technique that includes (1) a compression scheme of sparse 4D functions into 3D textures, and (2) a visualization algorithm that decompress the stored data from the 3D textures using the programmability of fragment shaders, allowing real-time visualization of such data. We illustrate the system in action with datasets resulting from computational fluid dynamics simulations. SN - 0-7695-2091-X AD - Washington, DC, USA TI - Real-Time Volume Rendering of Time-Varying Data Using a Fragment-Shader Compression Approach PB - IEEE Computer Society T2 - PVG '03: Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics SP - 10 KW - 4d KW - real KW - rendering KW - time KW - volume AU - Binotto, Binotto AU - Comba, Joao AU - Freitas, Carla PY - 2003/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PVGS.2003.1249044 ER -