Efficient High-Quality Volume Rendering of SPH Data

  • Authors:
  • Roland Fraedrich;Stefan Auer;Rudiger Westermann

  • Affiliations:
  • Technische Universität München;Technische Universität München;Technische Universität München

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

High quality volume rendering of SPH data requires a complex order-dependent resampling of particle quantities along the view rays. In this paper we present an efficient approach to perform this task using a novel view-space discretization of the simulation domain. Our method draws upon recent work on GPU-based particle voxelization for the efficient resampling of particles into uniform grids. We propose a new technique that leverages a perspective grid to adaptively discretize the view-volume, giving rise to a continuous level-of-detail sampling structure and reducing memory requirements compared to a uniform grid. In combination with a level-of-detail representation of the particle set, the perspective grid allows effectively reducing the amount of primitives to be processed at run-time. We demonstrate the quality and performance of our method for the rendering of fluid and gas dynamics SPH simulations consisting of many millions of particles.