GPU-based Particle Systems for Illustrative Volume Rendering

Pelt, R.F.P. van; Vilanova, A.; Wetering, H.M.M. van de

GPU-based Particle Systems for Illustrative Volume Rendering

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Date

2008

Authors

Pelt, R.F.P. van
Vilanova, A.
Wetering, H.M.M. van de

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Illustrative techniques are generally applied to produce stylized renderings. Various illustrative styles have been applied to volumetric data sets, producing clearer images and effectively conveying visual information. We adopt user-configurable particle systems to produce stylized renderings from the volume data, imitating traditional pen-and-ink drawings. In the following, we present an interactive GPU-based illustrative framework, called VolFlies- GPU, for rendering volume data, exploiting parallelism in both graphics hardware and particle systems. We achieve real-time interaction and prompt parametrization of the illustrative styles, using an intuitive GPGPU paradigm that delivers the computational power to drive our particle system and visualization algorithms.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:VG/VG-PBG08/089-096
,
booktitle = {IEEE/ EG Symposium on Volume and Point-Based Graphics
},
editor = {Hans-Christian Hege and David Laidlaw and Renato Pajarola and Oliver Staadt
},
title = {{GPU-based Particle Systems for Illustrative Volume Rendering
}},
author = {Pelt, R.F.P. van and 
Vilanova, A. and 
Wetering, H.M.M. van de
},
year = {2008
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-8376
},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-12-5
},
DOI = {10.2312/VG/VG-PBG08/089-096
}
}