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V-buffer: visible volume rendering

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SIGGRAPH '88: Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

Pages 59 - 64

https://doi.org/10.1145/54852.378482

Published: 01 June 1988 Publication History

Abstract

This paper presents rendering techniques that use volumes as the basic geometric primitives. It defines data structures composed of numerous subvolumes, in excess of 100,000. Over each subvolume, a scalar field describes the variation of some physical quantity. The two rendering methods described herein assume a trilinear variation of this scalar field within each volume element, unlike voxel-based techniques that assume a constant value for each subvolume. The result is a higher order approximation of the structures within the volume. In addition, solid texture mapping, atmospheric attenuation, and transfer functions relating the dynamic range of the scalar field to color and opacity are used to isolate important data features. The result is a new method for the visualization of three-dimensional data resulting from numerical simulations and observations of natural phenomena. This method continuously covers the gap between surface-based and voxel-based techniques.

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Index Terms

V-buffer: visible volume rendering
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Image and video acquisition
        3D imaging
  2. Computer graphics
2. Theory of computation
  1. Randomness, geometry and discrete structures
    1. Computational geometry

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SIGGRAPH '88: Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

August 1988

356 pages

ISBN:0897912756

DOI:10.1145/54852

Editor:
Richard J. Beach
Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA

ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Volume 22, Issue 4
Aug. 1988
330 pages
ISSN:0097-8930
DOI:10.1145/378456
Editor:
Richard J. Beach
Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA
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