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Title: Fast stereoscopic images with ray-traced volume rendering

Abstract

One of the drawbacks of standard volume rendering techniques is that is it often difficult to comprehend the three-dimensional structure of the volume from a single frame; this is especially true in cases where there is no solid surface. Generally, several frames must be generated and viewed sequentially, using motion parallax to relay depth. Another option is to generate a single spectroscopic pair, resulting in clear and unambiguous depth information in both static and moving images. Methods have been developed which take advantage of the coherence between the two halves of a stereo pair for polygon rendering and ray-tracing, generating the second half of the pair in significantly less time than that required to completely render a single image. This paper reports the results of implementing these techniques with parallel ray-traced volume rendering. In tests with different data types, the time savings is in the range of 70--80%.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
10150373
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-94-1250; CONF-941085-3
ON: DE94011703
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-36
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Visualization `94,Washington, DC (United States),17-21 Oct 1994; Other Information: PBD: [1994]
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; VOLUME; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEASURING METHODS; PROJECTION OPERATORS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; 990200; MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS

Citation Formats

Adelson, S J, and Hansen, C D. Fast stereoscopic images with ray-traced volume rendering. United States: N. p., 1994. Web.
Adelson, S J, & Hansen, C D. Fast stereoscopic images with ray-traced volume rendering. United States.
Adelson, S J, and Hansen, C D. 1994. "Fast stereoscopic images with ray-traced volume rendering". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10150373.
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abstractNote = {One of the drawbacks of standard volume rendering techniques is that is it often difficult to comprehend the three-dimensional structure of the volume from a single frame; this is especially true in cases where there is no solid surface. Generally, several frames must be generated and viewed sequentially, using motion parallax to relay depth. Another option is to generate a single spectroscopic pair, resulting in clear and unambiguous depth information in both static and moving images. Methods have been developed which take advantage of the coherence between the two halves of a stereo pair for polygon rendering and ray-tracing, generating the second half of the pair in significantly less time than that required to completely render a single image. This paper reports the results of implementing these techniques with parallel ray-traced volume rendering. In tests with different data types, the time savings is in the range of 70--80%.},
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year = {Sun May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1994},
month = {Sun May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1994}
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