Visualization of Particle-based Data with Transparency and Ambient Occlusion

dc.contributor.authorStaib, Joachimen_US
dc.contributor.authorGrottel, Sebastianen_US
dc.contributor.authorGumhold, Stefanen_US
dc.contributor.editorH. Carr, K.-L. Ma, and G. Santuccien_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-22T12:51:13Z
dc.date.available2015-05-22T12:51:13Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractParticle-based simulation techniques, like the discrete element method or molecular dynamics, are widely used in many research fields. In real-time explorative visualization it is common to render the resulting data using opaque spherical glyphs with local lighting only. Due to massive overlaps, however, inner structures of the data are often occluded rendering visual analysis impossible. Furthermore, local lighting is not sufficient as several important features like complex shapes, holes, rifts or filaments cannot be perceived well. To address both problems we present a new technique that jointly supports transparency and ambient occlusion in a consistent illumination model. Our approach is based on the emission-absorption model of volume rendering. We provide analytic solutions to the volume rendering integral for several density distributions within a spherical glyph. Compared to constant transparency our approach preserves the three-dimensional impression of the glyphs much better. We approximate ambient illumination with a fast hierarchical voxel cone-tracing approach, which builds on a new real-time voxelization of the particle data. Our implementation achieves interactive frame rates for millions of static or dynamic particles without any preprocessing. We illustrate the merits of our method on real-world data sets gaining several new insights.en_US
dc.description.number3en_US
dc.description.sectionheadersVolume Renderingen_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume34en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.12627en_US
dc.identifier.pages151-160en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12627en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectI.3.3 [Computer Graphics]en_US
dc.subjectPicture/Image Generationen_US
dc.subjectDisplay Algorithmsen_US
dc.subjectI.3.7 [Computer Graphics]en_US
dc.subjectThree Dimensional Graphics and Realismen_US
dc.subjectColoren_US
dc.subjectshadingen_US
dc.subjectshadowingen_US
dc.subjectand textureen_US
dc.subjectI.3.7 [Computer Graphics]en_US
dc.subjectThree Dimensional Graphics and Realismen_US
dc.subjectRaytracingen_US
dc.titleVisualization of Particle-based Data with Transparency and Ambient Occlusionen_US
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