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Volumetric Data Exploration Using Interval Volume
June 1996 (vol. 2 no. 2)
pp. 144-155
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Issei Fujishiro, Yuji Maeda, Hiroshi Sato, Yuriko Takeshima, "Volumetric Data Exploration Using Interval Volume," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 144-155, June, 1996.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/2945.506226,
author = {Issei Fujishiro and Yuji Maeda and Hiroshi Sato and Yuriko Takeshima},
title = {Volumetric Data Exploration Using Interval Volume},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
volume = {2},
number = {2},
issn = {1077-2626},
year = {1996},
pages = {144-155},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/2945.506226},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
TI - Volumetric Data Exploration Using Interval Volume
IS - 2
SN - 1077-2626
SP144
EP155
EPD - 144-155
A1 - Issei Fujishiro,
A1 - Yuji Maeda,
A1 - Hiroshi Sato,
A1 - Yuriko Takeshima,
PY - 1996
KW - Volume visualization
KW - surface fitting
KW - isosurfacing
KW - isosurface
KW - Marching Cubes
KW - volume rendering
KW - atomic collision.
VL - 2
JA - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
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Abstract—A new type of geometric model called Interval volume for volumetric data exploration is presented. An interval volume represents a three-dimensional subvolume for which the associate scalar values lie within a user-specified interval, and provides one of the promising approaches to solid fitting, which is an extended concept of traditional surface fitting. A well known isosurfacing algorithm called Marching Cubes is extended to obtain a solid fitting algorithm, which extracts from a given volumetric data set a high resolution, polyhedral solid data structure of an interval volume. Branch-on-Need Octree is used as an auxiliary data structure to accelerate the extraction process. A variety of interval volume rendering methods and principal related operations, including measurements and focusing, are also presented. The effectiveness of measurement-coupled visualization capabilities of the presented approach is demonstrated by application to visualizing a four-dimensional simulated data from atomic collision research.

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Index Terms:
Volume visualization, surface fitting, isosurfacing, isosurface, Marching Cubes, volume rendering, atomic collision.
Citation:
Issei Fujishiro, Yuji Maeda, Hiroshi Sato, Yuriko Takeshima, "Volumetric Data Exploration Using Interval Volume," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 144-155, June 1996, doi:10.1109/2945.506226
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