DocumentCode :
2451487
Title :
An interactive system for heterogeneous 3D volumetric data visualization
Author :
Xu, Huanhuan ; Yu, Wuyi ; Wei, Li ; Zhang, Ning ; Li, Xin
Author_Institution :
Electr. & Comput. Eng., Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, USA
fYear :
2010
fDate :
24-27 Aug. 2010
Firstpage :
1745
Lastpage :
1749
Abstract :
With the development of 3D scanning and imaging technologies, large amount of 3D surface and volumetric geometric data have been routinely collected these days. Compared with surface data, volumetric data are usually equipped with rich material, texture, intensity, and other heterogeneous structural information in their interior regions. Effectively visualizing such information can be very important since it facilitates many data analysis tasks. This paper studies the effective visualization of heterogeneous volumetric data which can have not only geometry but also other equipped scalar fields. We have developed an interactive system that can efficiently visualize the geometry and scalar field simultaneously via different cross-sections. A simple data structure used for handling large-scale 3D data is presented. Vector fields on the volumetric data such as 3D mapping, B-Spline fitting and fitting error field can also be effectively visualized in our framework. Effectiveness of our system is demonstrated and compared with existing volumetric data rendering system.
Keywords :
computational geometry; data analysis; data visualisation; interactive systems; rendering (computer graphics); splines (mathematics); 3D imaging technologies; 3D scanning technologies; B-spline fitting; data analysis tasks; data structure; fitting error field; heterogeneous 3D volumetric data visualization; interactive system; volumetric data rendering system; Computational modeling; Data models; Data structures; Data visualization; Rendering (computer graphics); Solid modeling; Three dimensional displays; B-Spline Fitting Visualization; Tetrahe-dral Mesh Cutting; Volumetric Mapping Visualization; Volumetric Model Visualization;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Computer Science and Education (ICCSE), 2010 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hefei
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6002-1
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICCSE.2010.5593584
Filename :
5593584
Link To Document :
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