Octrees for faster isosurface generation
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Isosurfacing in span space with utmost efficiency (ISSUE)
Proceedings of the 7th conference on Visualization '96
I/O optimal isosurface extraction (extended abstract)
VIS '97 Proceedings of the 8th conference on Visualization '97
Isosurface extraction in time-varying fields using a temporal hierarchical index tree
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '98
Isosurface extraction in time-varying fields using a temporal branch-on-need tree (T-BON)
VIS '99 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '99: celebrating ten years
A Near Optimal Isosurface Extraction Algorithm Using the Span Space
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
ShellSplatting: interactive rendering of anisotropic volumes
VISSYM '03 Proceedings of the symposium on Data visualisation 2003
Iso-Splatting: A Point-Based Alternative to Isosurface Visualization
PG '03 Proceedings of the 11th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications
Adaptive Extraction of Time-Varying Isosurfaces
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Efficient Point-Based Isosurface Exploration Using the Span-Triangle
VIS '04 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '04
Interactive Point-Based Isosurface Extraction
VIS '04 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '04
Isosurface extraction using fixed-sized buckets
EUROVIS'05 Proceedings of the Seventh Joint Eurographics / IEEE VGTC conference on Visualization
Scalable isosurface visualization of massive datasets on commodity off-the-shelf clusters
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Modeling and Visualization Approaches for Time-Varying Volumetric Data
ISVC '08 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Advances in Visual Computing, Part II
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We present a novel approach to out-of-core time-varying isosurface visualization. We attempt to interactively visualize time-varying datasets which are too large to fit into main memory using a technique which is dramatically different from existing algorithms. Inspired by video encoding techniques, we examine the data differences between time steps to extract isosurface information. We exploit span space extraction techniques to retrieve operations necessary to update isosurface geometry from neighboring time steps. Because only the changes between time steps need to be retrieved from disk, I/O bandwidth requirements are minimized. We apply temporal compression to further reduce disk access and employ a point-based previewing technique that is refined in idle interaction cycles. Our experiments on computational simulation data indicate that this method is an extremely viable solution to large time-varying isosurface visualization. Our work advances the state-of-the-art by enabling all isosurfaces to be represented by a compact set of operations.