Interval volume: a solid fitting technique for volumetric data display and analysis

Author

Fujishiro, Issei ; Maeda, Yuji ; Sato, Hiroshi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Sci., Ochanomizu Univ., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

1995

fDate

29 Oct-3 Nov 1995

Firstpage

151

Abstract

Proposes as a generalization of isosurfaces, the `interval volume´, which is a new type of geometric model representing 3D subvolumes with field values belonging to a closed interval. A dominant surface fitting algorithm called `marching cubes´ is extended to obtain a solid fitting algorithm, which extracts from a given volumetric dataset a high-resolution polyhedral solid data structure of the interval volume. Rendering methods for the interval volume and principal related operations are also presented. The effectiveness of this approach is illustrated with 4D simulated data from atomic collision research

Keywords

atomic collisions; data analysis; data visualisation; physics computing; rendering (computer graphics); solid modelling; surface fitting; 3D subvolumes; 4D simulated data; atomic collisions; closed interval; dominant surface fitting algorithm; field values; geometric model; high-resolution polyhedral solid data structure extraction; interval volume; isosurfaces; marching cubes algorithm; rendering methods; solid fitting technique; volumetric data analysis; volumetric data display; volumetric dataset; Atomic measurements; Biomedical measurements; Data analysis; Data mining; Data structures; Data visualization; Displays; Isosurfaces; Solids; Surface fitting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visualization, 1995. Visualization '95. Proceedings., IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1070-2385

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7187-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VISUAL.1995.480807

Filename

480807