In the paper, selected visualization methods are described such as: surface rendering, volume rendering and the simplest approach basing on texture mapping. This work, however, does not aim at a detailed description of those methods but at a friendly presentation of possible ways of visualization and their features which can be of importance for a physician who has some expectations or needs, s...

The diffusion method is a good approximation inside the dense core of a cloud, but not at the more tenuous boundary regions. Also, it breaks down in regions where the density of scattering droplets is zero. We have enhanced it by using hardware cell projection volume rendering at cloud border voxels to account for the straight line light transport across these empty regions. We have also used t...

Certain systems, such as amphiphile solutions or diblock copolymer melts, may assemble into structures called “mesophases”, with properties intermediate between those of a solid and a liquid. These mesophases can be of very regular structure, but may contain defects and grain boundaries. Different visualization techniques such as volume rendering or isosurfacing of fluid density distributions a...

Volume-rendering computed tomography (CT) without contrast medium has clearly demonstrated the 3-D mapping of the saphenous vein (SV). Contrastless volume-rendering CT was used to preoperatively evaluate the SV anatomy before coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). This technique was useful for atypical anatomical variations, such as partial duplication of SV (Case 1) or varicose veins (Case 2)...

Volume rendering is a technique for visualizing 3D arrays of sampled data. Volume rendering, though capable of performing very effective visualization, is very computationally intensive. Semi-boundary (SB) is a compact data structure used to encode extracted surface from volume data. In this paper, we describe an incremental algorithm to shorten rendering of SB nodes. We define two projection r...

Recent research on high-performance ray tracing has achieved real-time performance even for highly complex surface models already on a single PC. In this report we provide an overview of techniques for extending real-time ray tracing also to interactive volume rendering. We review fast rendering techniques for different volume representations and rendering modes in a variety of computing enviro...

Volume rendering is a compute and memory intensive application. Researchers have attempted to use parallel computers to speed up volume rendering for interactive frame rates. Many architectures and approaches have been developed. I develop a taxonomy of volume rendering by forming ve categories: algorithm control ow, targeted hardware, application data characteristics, visualization method, and...

Dynamic flow volume rendering of three-dimensional vector fields offers better insights into the continuum and dynamics of the data field under investigation. Consumer graphics cards have seen a rapid explosion of performance and capabilities over the past few years. This paper explores the development of the Textured Splats algorithm for direct flow volume rendering of vector fields, that util...

Three-dimensional (3D) medical images of computed tomographic (CT) data sets can be generated with a variety of computer algorithms. The three most commonly used techniques are shaded surface display, maximum intensity projection, and, more recently, 3D volume rendering. Implementation of 3D volume rendering involves volume data management, which relates to operations including acquisition, res...

Despite the increasing importance of multimodal volumetric data acquisition and the recent progress in advanced volume illumination, interactive multimodal volume illumination remains an open challenge. As a consequence, the perceptual benefits of advanced volume illumination algorithms cannot be exploited when visualizing multimodal data – a scenario where increased data complexity urges for i...