VolVis: a diversified volume visualization system

Author

Avila, Ricardo ; He, Taosong ; Hong, Fichan ; Kaufman, Arie ; Pfister, Hanspeter ; Silva, Claudio ; Sobierajski, Lisa ; Wang, Sidney

Author_Institution

Howard Hughes Med. Inst., State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

17-21 Oct 1994

Firstpage

31

Abstract

VolVis is a diversified, easy to use, extensible, high performance, and portable volume visualization system for scientists and engineers as well as for visualization developers and researchers. VolVis accepts as input 3D scalar volumetric data as well as 3D volume-sampled and classical geometric models. Interaction with the data is controlled by a variety of 3D input devices in an input device-independent environment. VolVis output includes navigation preview, static images, and animation sequences. A variety of volume rendering algorithms are supported ranging from fast rough approximations, to compression-domain rendering, to accurate volumetric ray tracing and radiosity, and irregular grid rendering

Keywords

computer animation; data visualisation; ray tracing; rendering (computer graphics); 3D scalar volumetric data; 3D volume-sampled models; VolVis; accurate volumetric ray tracing; animation sequences; classical geometric models; compression-domain rendering; diversified volume visualization system; engineers; irregular grid rendering; radiosity; scientists; static images; visualization developers; volume rendering algorithms; Artificial intelligence; Data mining; Data visualization; Graphics; Helium; Pipelines; Ray tracing; Rendering (computer graphics); Solid modeling; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visualization, 1994., Visualization '94, Proceedings., IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6627-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346340

Filename

346340