Data shaders

Author

Corrie, Brian ; Mackerras, Paul

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Australian Nat. Univ., Canberra, ACT, Australia

fYear

1993

fDate

25-29 Oct 1993

Firstpage

275

Lastpage

282

Abstract

The process of visualizing a scientific data set requires an extensive knowledge of the domain in which the data set is created. Because an in-depth knowledge of all scientific domains is not available to the creator of visualization software, a flexible and extensible visualization system is essential in providing a productive tool to the scientist. This paper presents a shading language, based on the RenderMan shading language, that extends the shading model used to render volume data sets. Data shaders, written in this shading language, give the users of a volume rendering system a means of specifying how a volume data set is to be rendered. This flexibility is useful both as a visualization tool in the scientific community and as a research tool in the visualization community

Keywords

data visualisation; rendering (computer graphics); RenderMan shading language; data shaders; productive tool; research tool; scientific data set; shading language; shading model; visualization software; volume data sets; volume rendering system; Computer science; Data analysis; Data visualization; Image converters; Pixel; Rendering (computer graphics); Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visualization, 1993. Visualization '93, Proceedings., IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3940-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VISUAL.1993.398879

Filename

398879