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Visualization of Isosurfaces with Parametric Cubes
Author(s) -
Mora B.,
Jessel J.P.,
Caubet R.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
computer graphics forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.578
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1467-8659
pISSN - 0167-7055
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8659.00530
Subject(s) - computer science , octree , computer graphics (images) , visualization , marching cubes , interpolation (computer graphics) , isosurface , parametric statistics , computer vision , filter (signal processing) , artificial intelligence , data visualization , volume (thermodynamics) , animation , mathematics , statistics , physics , quantum mechanics
To render images from volume datasets, an interpolation method also called reconstruction is needed. The level of details of the resultant image closely depends on the filter used for reconstruction. We propose here a new filter producing C 1 continue surfaces. The provided image quality is better than current high‐quality algorithms, like splatting or trilinear raycasting, where tiny details are often eliminated. In contrast with other studied high quality filters that are practically unusable, our algorithm has been implemented interactively on a modest platform thanks to an efficient implementation using parametric cubes. We also demonstrate the interest of a min‐max octree in the visualization of isosurfaces interactively thresholded.