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How to master, organize and extract useful knowledge from the overwhelming flow of information made available by today’s data acquisition systems and computing resources has become one of the greatest scientific challenges of the 21st century.
Visualization is the premium means of taking up this challenge. This book is based on selected lectures given by leading experts in scientific visualization during a workshop held at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. Topics include user issues in visualization, large data visualization, unstructured mesh processing for visualization, volumetric visualization, flow visualization, medical visualization and visualization systems. The book contains more than 350 color illustrations.
Meshes for Visualization.
Adaptive Contouring with Quadratic Tetrahedra. Benjamin F. Gregorski, David F. Wiley, Henry R. Childs, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth I. Joy.
On the Convexification of Unstructured Grids from a Scientific Visualization Perspective. Joao L.D. Comba, Joseph S.B. Mitchell, Cl audio T. Silva.
Brain Mapping Using Topology Graphs Obtained by Surface Segmentation. Fabien Vivodtzev, Lars Linsen,Bernd Hamann, Kenneth I. Joy, Bruno A. Olshausen.
Computing and Displaying Intermolecular Negative Volume for Docking. Chang Ha Lee, Amitabh Varshney
Optimized Bounding Polyhedra for GPU-Based Distance Transform. Ronald Peikert, Christian Sigg
Generating, Representing and Querying Level-Of-Detail Tetrahedral Meshes. Leila De Floriani, Emanuele Danovaro
Split ’N Fit: Adaptive Fitting of Scattered Point Cloud Data. Gregory M. Nielson, Hans Hagen, Kun Lee, Adam Huang.
Volume Visualization and Medical Visualization
Ray Casting with Programmable Graphics Hardware. Manfred Weiler, Martin Kraus, Stefan Guthe, Thomas Ertl, Wolfgang Straßer.
Volume Exploration Made Easy Using Feature Maps. Klaus Mueller, Sarang Lakare, Arie Kaufman.
Fantastic Voyage of the Virtual Colon. Arie Kaufman, Sarang Lakare.
Volume Denoising for Visualizing Refraction. David Rodgman, Min Chen.
Emphasizing Isosurface Embeddings in Direct Volume Rendering.Shigeo Takahashi, Yuriko Takeshima, Issei Fujishiro, Gregory M. Nielson.
Diagnostic Relevant Visualization of Vascular Structures. Armin Kanitsar, Dominik Fleischmann, Rainer Wegenkittl, Meister Eduard Groller.
Vector Field Visualization
Clifford Convolution and Pattern Matching on Irregular Grids. Julia Ebling, Gerik Scheuermann.
Fast and Robust Extraction of Separation Line Features. Xavier Tricoche, Christoph Garth, Gerik Scheuermann.
Fast Vortex Axis Calculation Using Vortex Features and Identification Algorithms. Markus Rutten, Hans-Georg Pagendarm.
Topological Features in Vector Fields Thomas Wischgoll, Joerg Meyer.
Visualization Systems
Generalizing Focus+Context Visualization. Helwig Hauser.
Rule-based Morphing Techniques for Interactive Clothing Catalogs. Achim Ebert, Ingo Ginkel, Hans Hagen.
A Practical System for Constrained Interactive Walkthroughs of Arbitrarily Complex Scenes. Lining Yang, Roger Crawfis.
Component Based Visualisation of DIET Applications. Rolf Hendrik van Lengen, Paul Marrow, Thies Bahr, Hans Hagen, Erwin Bonsma, Cefn Hoile.
Facilitating the Visual Analysis of Large-Scale Unsteady Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations. Kelly Gaither, David S. Ebert.
Evolving Dataflow Visualization Environments to Grid Computing. Ken Brodlie, Sally Mason, Martin Thompson, Mark Walkley and Jason Wood.
Earthquake Visualization Using Large-scale Ground Motion and Structural Response Simulations. Joerg Meyer, Thomas Wischgoll.
Author Index