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Interactive volume isosurface rendering using BT volumes

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I3D '08: Proceedings of the 2008 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics and games

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1342250.1342257

Published: 15 February 2008 Publication History

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This paper presents a volume representation format called BT Volumes, along with a technique to interactively render them and two methods to create useful data in BT Volume format, including high quality reconstruction filtering. Medical applications rely heavily on isosurface data to visualize anatomy, but current real-time iso-surface rendering techniques such as Marching Cubes are limited in flexibility and provide only low-order linear reconstruction filtering. As an alternative to creating triangular geometry to represent the surface, we ray trace an exact isosurface directly inside a pixel shader. We construct a set of Bézier Tetrahedra to approximate any reconstruction filter with arbitrary footprint. We then precompute the volume convolved with this filter as a tetrahedral grid with Bézier weights that can be ray traced in graphics hardware. Our technique is fast, renders any isosurface level without additional work, and performs high quality reconstruction filtering with arbitrary footprints and reconstruction kernels.

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Index Terms

Interactive volume isosurface rendering using BT volumes
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Computer vision problems
        Reconstruction
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Shape modeling
      1. Parametric curve and surface models
      2. Volumetric models

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I3D '08: Proceedings of the 2008 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics and games

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ISBN:9781595939838

DOI:10.1145/1342250

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