Overview
- Editors:
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Gerald Farin
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
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Bernd Hamann
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Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, Davis, USA
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Hans Hagen
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Department of Computer Science, Technical University Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Table of contents (20 papers)
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- Mark A. Duchaineau, Serban D. Porumbescu, Martin Bertram, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth I. Joy
Pages 1-17
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- Gunther H. Weber, Oliver Kreylos, Terry J. Ligocki, John M. Shalf, Hans Hagen, Bernd Hamann et al.
Pages 19-40
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- Jarek Rossignac, Alla Safonova, Andrzej Szymczak
Pages 41-50
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- Eric LaMar, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth I. Joy
Pages 51-62
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- David F. Wiley, Martin Bertram, Benjamin W. Jordan, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth I. Joy, Nelson L. Max et al.
Pages 63-88
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- Martin Bertram, Shirley E. Konkle, Hans Hagen, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth I. Joy
Pages 89-97
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- Benjamin F. Gregorski, David E. Sigeti, John Ambrosiano, Gerald Graham, Murray Wolinsky, Mark A. Duchaineau et al.
Pages 99-117
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- Andrew J. Hanson, Philip Chi-Wing Fu
Pages 119-142
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- Kenneth I. Joy, Justin Legakis, Ron MacCracken
Pages 143-170
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- Xavier Tricoche, Gerik Scheuermann, Hans Hagen
Pages 171-184
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- Martin Kraus, Thomas Ertl
Pages 185-195
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- Terry J. Ligocki, Brian Van Straalen, John M. Shalf, Gunther H. Weber, Bernd Hamann
Pages 197-204
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- Oliver Kreylos, E. Wes Bethel, Terry J. Ligocki, Bernd Hamann
Pages 205-224
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- Valerio Pascucci, Randall J. Frank
Pages 225-241
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- Robert Schneider, Leif Kobbelt, Hans-Peter Seidel
Pages 243-267
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- Georgios Stylianou, Gerald Farin
Pages 269-281
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- Joerg Meyer, Ragnar Borg, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth I. Joy, Arthur J. Olson
Pages 283-295
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- Philip J. Rhodes, R. Daniel Bergeron, Ted M. Sparr
Pages 297-317
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- Ashish Amresh, Gerald Farin, Anshuman Razdan
Pages 319-327
About this book
The nature of the physical Universe has been increasingly better understood in recent years, and cosmological concepts have undergone a rapid evolution (see, e.g., [11], [2],or [5]). Although there are alternate theories, it is generally believed that the large-scale relationships and homogeneities that we see can only be explainedby having the universe expand suddenlyin a very early “in?ationary” period. Subsequent evolution of the Universe is described by the Hubble expansion, the observation that the galaxies are ?ying away from each other. We can attribute di?erent rates of this expansion to domination of di?erent cosmological processes, beginning with radiation, evolving to matter domination, and, relatively recently, to vacuum domination (the Cosmological Constant term)[4]. We assume throughout that we will be relying as much as possible on observational data, with simulations used only for limited purposes, e.g., the appearance of the Milky Wayfrom nearbyintergalactic viewpoints. The visualization of large-scale astronomical data sets using?xed, non-interactive animations has a long history. Several books and ?lms exist, ranging from “Cosmic View: The Universe in Forty Jumps” [3] by Kees Boeke to “Powers of 10” [6,13] by Charles and Ray Eames, and the recent Imax ?lm “Cosmic Voyage” [15]. We have added our own contribution [9], “Cosmic Clock,” which is an animation based entirely on the concepts and implementation described in this paper.
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"This work … introduce the first end-to-end multiresolution dataflow strategy that can effectively combine the top performing subdivision-surface wavelet compression and view-dependent optimization methods, thus increasing efficiency by several orders of magnitude over conventional processing pipelines. … Overall, this is the first effort to exploit semi-structured surface representations for a complete large-data visualization pipeline." (Wordtrade, July, 2008)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
Gerald Farin
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Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, Davis, USA
Bernd Hamann
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Department of Computer Science, Technical University Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Hans Hagen