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Smooth, Volume-Accurate Material Interface Reconstruction
September/October 2010 (vol. 16 no. 5)
pp. 802-814
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John C. Anderson, Christoph Garth, Mark A. Duchaineau, Kenneth I. Joy, "Smooth, Volume-Accurate Material Interface Reconstruction," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 802-814, September/October, 2010.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TVCG.2010.17,
author = {John C. Anderson and Christoph Garth and Mark A. Duchaineau and Kenneth I. Joy},
title = {Smooth, Volume-Accurate Material Interface Reconstruction},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
volume = {16},
number = {5},
issn = {1077-2626},
year = {2010},
pages = {802-814},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2010.17},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
TI - Smooth, Volume-Accurate Material Interface Reconstruction
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SN - 1077-2626
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A1 - John C. Anderson,
A1 - Christoph Garth,
A1 - Mark A. Duchaineau,
A1 - Kenneth I. Joy,
PY - 2010
KW - Material interface reconstruction
KW - volume fractions
KW - embedded boundary
KW - active interfaces
KW - segmentation.
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JA - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
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John C. Anderson, Makai Ocean Engineering, Inc.
Christoph Garth, University of California at Davis, Davis
Mark A. Duchaineau, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore
Kenneth I. Joy, University of California at Davis, Davis
A new material interface reconstruction method for volume fraction data is presented. Our method is comprised of two components: first, we generate initial interface topology; then, using a combination of smoothing and volumetric forces within an active interface model, we iteratively transform the initial material interfaces into high-quality surfaces that accurately approximate the problem's volume fractions. Unlike all previous work, our new method produces material interfaces that are smooth, continuous across cell boundaries, and segment cells into regions with proper volume. These properties are critical during visualization and analysis. Generating high-quality mesh representations of material interfaces is required for accurate calculations of interface statistics, and dramatically increases the utility of material boundary visualizations.

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Index Terms:
Material interface reconstruction, volume fractions, embedded boundary, active interfaces, segmentation.
Citation:
John C. Anderson, Christoph Garth, Mark A. Duchaineau, Kenneth I. Joy, "Smooth, Volume-Accurate Material Interface Reconstruction," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 802-814, Sept.-Oct. 2010, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2010.17
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