TEXTURE-ENHANCED DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING

Felix Manke, Burkhard Wünsche

2009

Abstract

Direct volume rendering (DVR) is a flexible technique for visualizing and exploring scientific and biomedical volumetric data sets. Transfer functions associate field values with colors and opacities, however, for complex data are often not sufficient for encoding all relevant information. We introduce a novel visualization technique termed texture-enhanced DVR to visualize supplementary data such as material properties and additional data fields. Smooth transitions in the underlying data are represented by coherently morphing textures within user defined regions of interest. The framework seamlessly integrates into the conventional DVR process, can be executed on the GPU, is extremely powerful and flexible, and enables entirely novel visualizations.

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Manke F. and Wünsche B. (2009). TEXTURE-ENHANCED DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-67-8, pages 185-190. DOI: 10.5220/0001772701850190


in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp09,
author={Felix Manke and Burkhard Wünsche},
title={TEXTURE-ENHANCED DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={185-190},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001772701850190},
isbn={978-989-8111-67-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - TEXTURE-ENHANCED DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING
SN - 978-989-8111-67-8
AU - Manke F.
AU - Wünsche B.
PY - 2009
SP - 185
EP - 190
DO - 10.5220/0001772701850190