Illustrating Surfaces in Volume

Yuan, Xiaoru; Chen, Baoquan

Illustrating Surfaces in Volume

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Date

2004

Authors

Yuan, Xiaoru
Chen, Baoquan

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

This paper presents a novel framework for illustrating surfaces in a volume. Surfaces are illustrated by drawing only feature lines, such as silhouettes, valleys, ridges, and surface hatching strokes, and are embedded in volume renderings. This framework promises effective illustration of both surfaces and volumes without occluding or cluttering each other. A two-step approach has been taken: the first step depicts surfaces; the second step performs volume rendering, at the same time embedding surfaces from the first step. We introduce Procedurally Perturbed Image Processing (PIP), a new method for enhancing both feature detection and depiction of surfaces. We also present implementation strategies, especially those leveraging modern graphics hardware, for delivering an interactive rendering system. Our implementation results have shown that this mixed form of rendering improves volume visualization and is efficient.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/VisSym/VisSym04/009-016
,
booktitle = {Eurographics / IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization
},
editor = {Oliver Deussen and Charles Hansen and Daniel Keim and Dietmar Saupe
},
title = {{Illustrating Surfaces in Volume
}},
author = {Yuan, Xiaoru and 
Chen, Baoquan
},
year = {2004
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-5296
},
ISBN = {3-905673-07-X
},
DOI = {/10.2312/VisSym/VisSym04/009-016
}
}