ISOSLIDER: A System for Interactive Exploration of IsoSurfaces

People: Jatin Chhugani, Sudhir Vishwanath, Jonathan Cohen and Subodh Kumar
Description: We present ISOSLIDER, a system for interactive exploration of isosurfaces of a scalar field. Our algorithm focuses on fast update of isosurfaces for interactive display as a user makes small changes to the isovalue of the desired surface. We exploit this coherence of this update. Larger changes are supported as well. The update of the isosurface is made at a correct level of detail so that not too many operations need be performed nor too many triangles be rendered. ISOSLIDER does not need to retail the entire volume in the main memory and stores most data out of core. The central idea of the ISOSLIDER algorithm is to determine salient isovalues where surface topology changes and pre-encode these changes so as to facilitate fast updates to the triangulation.
Papers: ISOSLIDER: A System for Interactive Exploration of IsoSurfaces (VisSym 2003 Joint Eurographics-IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization, Grenoble, France, May 26-28, 2003)
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