Volume graphics

Author

Kaufman, Arie ; Cohen, Daniel ; Yagel, Roni

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA

Volume

26

Issue

7

fYear

1993

fDate

7/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

51

Lastpage

64

Abstract

Volume graphics, which employs a volume buffer of voxels for 3D scene representation, is discussed. Volume graphics offers advantages over surface graphics: it is viewpoint independent, insensitive to scene and object complexity, and suitable for the representation of sampled and simulated data sets. Moreover, geometric objects can be mixed with these data sets. Volume graphics supports the visualization of internal structures and lends itself to the realization of block operations, constructive solid geometry modeling, irregular voxel sizes, and hierarchical representation. The problems associated with the volume buffer representation (such as discreteness, memory size, processing time, and loss of geometric representation) are discussed.<>

Keywords

computational geometry; data visualisation; solid modelling; 3D scene representation; block operations; constructive solid geometry modeling; discreteness; geometric objects; hierarchical representation; internal structures; irregular voxel sizes; memory size; processing time; sampled data sets; simulated data sets; viewpoint independence; volume buffer; volume graphics; volume visualization; Computational geometry; Geometric modeling; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.1993.274942

Filename

274942