Scientific visualization : the visual extraction of knowledge from data / Georges-Pierre Bonneau, Thomas Ertl, Gregory M. Nielson, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bonneau, Georges-Pierre.

Ertl, Thomas, 1957-

Nielson, Gregory M.

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Series:

Mathematics and visualization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Methodology.

Science.

Visualization--Technique.

Visualization.

Digital computer simulation.

Computer graphics.

Physical Description:

ix, 432 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Springer, 2006.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part I Meshes for Visualization

Adaptive Contouring with Quadratic Tetrahedra / Benjamin F. Gregorski, David F. Wiley, Henry R. Childs, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth I. Joy 3

On the Convexification of Unstructured Grids from a Scientific Visualization Perspective / Joao L.D. Comba, Joseph S.B. Mitchell, Claudio T. Silva 17

Brain Mapping Using Topology Graphs Obtained by Surface Segmentation / Fabien Vivodtzev, Lars Linsen, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth I. Joy, Bruno A. Olshausen 35

Computing and Displaying Intermolecular Negative Volume for Docking / Chang Ha Lee, Amitabh Varshney 49

Optimized Bounding Polyhedra for GPU-Based Distance Transform / Ronald Peikert, Christian Sigg 65

Generating, Representing and Querying Level-Of-Detail Tetrahedral Meshes / Leila De Floriani, Emanuele Danovaro 79

Split 'N Fit: Adaptive Fitting of Scattered Point Cloud Data / Gregory M. Nielson, Hans Hagen, Kun Lee, Adam Huang 97

Part II Volume Visualization and Medical Visualization

Ray Casting with Programmable Graphics Hardware / Manfred Weiler, Martin Kraus, Stefan Guthe, Thomas Ertl, Wolfgang Straber 115

Volume Exploration Made Easy Using Feature Maps / Klaus Mueller, Sarang Lakare, Arie Kaufman 131

Fantastic Voyage of the Virtual Colon / Arie Kaufman, Sarang Lakare 149

Volume Denoising for Visualizing Refraction / David Rodgman, Min Chen 163

Emphasizing Isosurface Emheddings in Direct Volume Rendering / Shigeo Takahashi, Yuriko Takeshima, Issei Fujishiro, Gregory M. Nielson 185

Diagnostic Relevant Visualization of Vascular Structures / Armin Kanitsar, Dominik Fleischmann, Rainer Wegenkittl, Meister Eduard Groller 207

Part III Vector Field Visualization

Clifford Convolution and Pattern Matching on Irregular Grids / Julia Ebling, Gerik Scheuermann 231

Fast and Robust Extraction of Separation Line Features / Xavier Tricoche, Christoph Garth, Gerik Scheuermann 249

Fast Vortex Axis Calculation Using Vortex Features and Identification Algorithms / Markus Rutten, Hans-Georg Pagendarm 265

Topological Features in Vector Fields / Thomas Wischgoll, Joerg Meyer 287

Part IV Visualization Systems

Generalizing Focus+Context Visualization / Helwig Hauser 305

Rule-based Morphing Techniques for Interactive Clothing Catalogs / Achim Ebert, Ingo Ginkel, Hans Hagen 329

A Practical System for Constrained Interactive Walkthroughs of Arbitrarily Complex Scenes / Lining Yang, Roger Crawfis 345

Component Based Visualisation of Diet Applications / Rolf Hendrik van Lengen, Paul Marrow, Thies Bahr, Hans Hagen, Erwin Bonsma, Cefn Hoile 367

Facilitating the Visual Analysis of Large-Scale Unsteady Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations / Kelly Gaither, David S. Ebert 385

Evolving Dataflow Visualization Environments to Grid Computing / Ken Brodlie, Sally Mason, Martin Thompson, Mark Walkley, Jason Wood 395

Earthquake Visualization Using Large-scale Ground Motion and Structural Response Simulations / Joerg Meyer, Thomas Wischgoll 409.

Notes:

"With 228 figures."

Includes bibliographic references and author index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

3540260668

OCLC:

62363725