Interacting with direct volume rendering

Author

Bailey, Mike

Author_Institution

Supercomput. Center, Gen. Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA

Volume

21

Issue

1

fYear

2001

Firstpage

10

Lastpage

12

Abstract

Visualization researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center have written a program called Volume Explorer, or vx, which performs interactive direct volume rendering on the Volume Pro board. Using OpenGL, the GL Utility Toolkit and the Micro User Interface, vx generates the graphics and facilitates user interaction around the Volume Pro card. Regardless of the method, my colleagues and I have become very big fans of interactive direct volume rendering. This article shows some of our preliminary work with vx. On the screen, you can change and manipulate images at update rates of more than 30 frames per second

Keywords

computer graphic equipment; data visualisation; graphical user interfaces; interactive systems; rendering (computer graphics); GL Utility Toolkit; Micro User Interface; OpenGL; Volume Explorer; Volume Pro board; data visualization; graphics card; interactive direct volume rendering; update rate; user interaction; vx; Brain modeling; Frequency domain analysis; Head; Humans; Isosurfaces; Light sources; Resists; Signal analysis; Transfer functions; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/38.895124

Filename

895124