Tetrahedral projection using vertex shaders

  • Authors:
  • Brian Wylie;Kenneth Moreland;Lee Ann Fisk;Patricia Crossno

  • Affiliations:
  • Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque NM;Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque NM;Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque NM;Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque NM

  • Venue:
  • VVS '02 Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE symposium on Volume visualization and graphics
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Projective methods for volume rendering currently represent the best approach for interactive visualization of unstructured data sets. We present a technique for tetrahedral projection using the programmable vertex shaders on current generation commodity graphics cards. The technique is based on Shirley and Tuchman's Projected Tetrahedra (PT) algorithm and allows tetrahedral elements to be volume scan converted within the graphics processing unit. Our technique requires no pre-processing of the data and no additional data structures. Our initial implementation allows interactive viewing of large unstructured datasets on a desktop personal computer.