Under Evolution.
ISOSLIDER: A System for Interactive Exploration of Isosurfaces
Jatin Chhugani
Sudhir Vishwanath
Jonathan Cohen
Subodh Kumar
Abstract
We present ISOSLIDER, a system for interactive exploration of isosurfaces of a scalar
field. Our algorithm focuses on fast update of isosurfaces for interactive
display as a user makes small changes to the isovalue of the desired surface.
We exploit the coherence of this update.
Larger changes are supported as well. The update to the isosurface is made at
a correct level of detail so that not too many operations need be performed nor
too many triangles need be rendered. ISOSLIDER does not need to retain the
entire volume in the main memory and stores most data out of core.
The central idea of the ISOSLIDER algorithm is to determine salient isovalues
where surface topology changes and pre-encode these changes so as to facilitate
fast updates to the triangulation.
Interactive Visualization of Unstructured Grids Using
Hierarchical 3D Textures.
Joshua Leven
Jason Corso
Subodh Kumar
Jonathan Cohen
Abstract
Abstract
We present a system for interactively rendering large, unstructured
grids. Our approach is to voxelize the grid into a 3D voxel
octree, and then to render the data using hierarchical, 3D texture
mapping. This approach leverages the current 3D texture mapping
PC hardware for the problem of unstructured grid rendering. We
specialize the 3D texture octree to the task of rendering unstructured
grids through a novel pad and stencil algorithm, which
distinguishes between data and non-data voxels. Both the voxelization
and rendering processes efficiently manage large, out-ofcore
datasets. The system manages cache usage in main memory
and texture memory, as well as bandwidths among disk, main
memory, and texture memory. It also manages rendering load to
achieve interactivity at all times. It maximizes a quality metric for
a desired level of interactivity. It has been applied to a number of
large data and produces high quality images at interactive, userselectable
frame rates using standard PC hardware