High-quality particle-based volume rendering for large-scale unstructured volume datasets

Journal of Visualization - Tập 16 - Trang 153-162 - 2013
Naohisa Sakamoto1, Naoya Maeda2, Takuma Kawamura3, Koji Koyamada1
1Institute for the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
2Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
3Center for Computational Science and e-Systems Japan Atomic Energy, Chiba, Japan

Tóm tắt

In this article, we propose a technique for improving the image quality of particle-based volume rendering (PBVR). A large-scale unstructured volume dataset often contains multiple sub-volumes, which cannot be ordered by visibility. PBVR can handle this type of volume dataset. Sampling misses often occur when the transfer function undergoes drastic changes, which can result in poor image quality. To reduce sampling misses caused by the high-frequency transfer function, we develop a new sampling technique called “layered sampling”. To confirm the effectiveness of our technique, we apply the proposed technique to a large-scale unstructured volume dataset subdivided into multiple sub-volumes.

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