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Hierarchical and Geometrical Methods in Scientific Visualization

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Gerald Farin

    1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

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  2. Bernd Hamann

    1. Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, Davis, USA

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  3. Hans Hagen

    1. Department of Computer Science, Technical University Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

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Part of the book series: Mathematics and Visualization (MATHVISUAL)

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Table of contents (20 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VI
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  2. Dataflow and Remapping for Wavelet Compression and View-dependent Optimization of Billion-triangle Isosurfaces

    • Mark A. Duchaineau, Serban D. Porumbescu, Martin Bertram, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth I. Joy
    Pages 1-17

  3. Extraction of Crack-free Isosurfaces from Adaptive Mesh Refinement Data

    • Gunther H. Weber, Oliver Kreylos, Terry J. Ligocki, John M. Shalf, Hans Hagen, Bernd Hamann et al.
    Pages 19-40

  4. Edgebreaker on a Corner Table: A Simple Technique for Representing and Compressing Triangulated Surfaces

    • Jarek Rossignac, Alla Safonova, Andrzej Szymczak
    Pages 41-50

  5. Efficient Error Calculation for Multiresolution Texture-based Volume Visualization

    • Eric LaMar, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth I. Joy
    Pages 51-62

  6. Hierarchical Spline Approximations

    • David F. Wiley, Martin Bertram, Benjamin W. Jordan, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth I. Joy, Nelson L. Max et al.
    Pages 63-88

  7. Terrain Modeling Using Voronoi Hierarchies

    • Martin Bertram, Shirley E. Konkle, Hans Hagen, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth I. Joy
    Pages 89-97

  8. Multiresolution Representation of Datasets with Material Interfaces

    • Benjamin F. Gregorski, David E. Sigeti, John Ambrosiano, Gerald Graham, Murray Wolinsky, Mark A. Duchaineau et al.
    Pages 99-117

  9. Approaches to Interactive Visualization of Large-scale Dynamic Astrophysical Environments

    • Andrew J. Hanson, Philip Chi-Wing Fu
    Pages 119-142

  10. Data Structures for Multiresolution Representation of Unstructured Meshes

    • Kenneth I. Joy, Justin Legakis, Ron MacCracken
    Pages 143-170

  11. Scaling the Topology of Symmetric, Second-Order Planar Tensor Fields

    • Xavier Tricoche, Gerik Scheuermann, Hans Hagen
    Pages 171-184

  12. Simplification of Nonconvex Tetrahedral Meshes

    • Martin Kraus, Thomas Ertl
    Pages 185-195

  13. A Framework for Visualizing Hierarchical Computations

    • Terry J. Ligocki, Brian Van Straalen, John M. Shalf, Gunther H. Weber, Bernd Hamann
    Pages 197-204

  14. Virtual-Reality Based Interactive Exploration of Multiresolution Data

    • Oliver Kreylos, E. Wes Bethel, Terry J. Ligocki, Bernd Hamann
    Pages 205-224

  15. Hierarchical Indexing for Out-of-Core Access to Multi-Resolution Data

    • Valerio Pascucci, Randall J. Frank
    Pages 225-241

  16. Mesh Fairing Based on Harmonic Mean Curvature Surfaces

    • Robert Schneider, Leif Kobbelt, Hans-Peter Seidel
    Pages 243-267

  17. Shape Feature Extraction

    • Georgios Stylianou, Gerald Farin
    Pages 269-281

  18. Network-based Rendering Techniques for Large-scale Volume Data Sets

    • Joerg Meyer, Ragnar Borg, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth I. Joy, Arthur J. Olson
    Pages 283-295

  19. A Data Model for Distributed Multiresolution Multisource Scientific Data

    • Philip J. Rhodes, R. Daniel Bergeron, Ted M. Sparr
    Pages 297-317

  20. Adaptive Subdivision Schemes for Triangular Meshes

    • Ashish Amresh, Gerald Farin, Anshuman Razdan
    Pages 319-327
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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

  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

    Gerald Farin

  • Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, Davis, USA

    Bernd Hamann

  • Department of Computer Science, Technical University Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Hans Hagen

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