A Visualization Framework for Time Dependent Metal Casting Simulations

We present a framework built for interactively visualizing massive volumetric data generated by computer simulations of metal casting processes. Its new render kernel uses CPU-based ray casting instead of the commonly used GPU-based rasterization and achieves superior visualization quality and rendering performances. New features as for example trilinear interpolation, switching regions of interest on/off, mapping the results correctly onto the casting mold´s triangulated boundary representation, slicing the casting mold along arbitrary planes and visualizing the entire 4D metal casting simulation are all realized at interactive frame rates.