Bivariate Transfer Functions on Unstructured Grids
Yuyan Song, Wei Chen, Ross Maciejewski, Kelly P. Gaither, David S. Ebertt
In Computer Graphics Forum, 28(3), 2009.
Abstract: Multi-dimensional transfer functions are commonly used in rectilinear volume renderings to effectively portray materials, material boundaries and even subtle variations along boundaries. However, most unstructured grid rendering algorithms only employ one-dimensional transfer functions. This paper proposes a novel pre-integrated Projected Tetrahedra (PT) rendering technique that applies bivariate transfer functions on unstructured grids. For each type of bivariate transfer function, an analytical form that pre-integrates the contribution of a ray segment in one tetrahedron is derived, and can be precomputed as a lookup table to compute the color and opacity in a projected tetrahedron on-the-fly. Further, we show how to approximate the integral using the pre-integration method for faster unstructured grid rendering. We demonstrate the advantages of our approach with a variety of examples and comparisons with one-dimensional transfer functions.
Keyword(s): I.3.3 [Computer Graphics]: Picture/Image Generation, Viewing algorithms I.3.7 [Computer Graphics]: Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism, Color, shading, shadowing, and texture
Article URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01473.x
BibTeX format:
@article{CGF:CGF1473,
  author = {Yuyan Song and Wei Chen and Ross Maciejewski and Kelly P. Gaither and David S. Ebertt},
  title = {Bivariate Transfer Functions on Unstructured Grids},
  journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
  volume = {28},
  number = {3},
  pages = {783--790},
  year = {2009},
}
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