Fiber Surfaces: Generalizing Isosurfaces to Bivariate Data

dc.contributor.authorCarr, Hamishen_US
dc.contributor.authorGeng, Zhaoen_US
dc.contributor.authorTierny, Julienen_US
dc.contributor.authorChattopadhyay, Amiten_US
dc.contributor.authorKnoll, Aaronen_US
dc.contributor.editorH. Carr, K.-L. Ma, and G. Santuccien_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-22T12:51:29Z
dc.date.available2015-05-22T12:51:29Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractScientific visualization has many effective methods for examining and exploring scalar and vector fields, but rather fewer for bivariate fields. We report the first general purpose approach for the interactive extraction of geometric separating surfaces in bivariate fields. This method is based on fiber surfaces: surfaces constructed from sets of fibers, the multivariate analogues of isolines. We show simple methods for fiber surface definition and extraction. In particular, we show a simple and efficient fiber surface extraction algorithm based on Marching Cubes. We also show how to construct fiber surfaces interactively with geometric primitives in the range of the function. We then extend this to build user interfaces that generate parameterized families of fiber surfaces with respect to arbitrary polygons. In the special case of isovalue-gradient plots, fiber surfaces capture features geometrically for quantitative analysis that have previously only been analysed visually and qualitatively using multi-dimensional transfer functions in volume rendering. We also demonstrate fiber surface extraction on a variety of bivariate data.en_US
dc.description.number3en_US
dc.description.sectionheadersMulti-modal and Multi-fielden_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume34en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.12636en_US
dc.identifier.pages241-250en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12636en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectI.3.5 [Computer Graphics]en_US
dc.subjectComputational Geometry and Object Modellingen_US
dc.subjectCurveen_US
dc.subjectsurfaceen_US
dc.subjectsolid and object representationsen_US
dc.titleFiber Surfaces: Generalizing Isosurfaces to Bivariate Dataen_US
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