Contents

• • Abstract
  • Kurzfassung
  • Related Publications
• Introduction
• State of the Art
  • Volume Rendering
  • Volume Compression
  • Networked Volume Visualization
• Basic Concepts
  • Preprocessing
  • Data Representation
  • Fast Rendering
  • Two-Level Volume Rendering
• Interactive Rendering
  • Real-Time Maximum Intensity Projection
    • Voxel Elimination
    • Voxel Storage
    • Projection
    • Extensions - LMIP and Depth-Shaded MIP
    • MIP Results
    • Discussion
  • Interactive High-Quality MIP
    • Preprocessing of Volume Data
    • Cell Storage
    • Rendering
    • Results
    • Discussion
  • Display of Iso-Surfaces
    • Preprocessing
    • Rendering
    • Results
    • Discussion
  • Extended shading models
    • Optimized Preprocessing for Contour Rendering
    • Results and Discussion
  • Summary
• Space-Efficient Object Representation for Network Transmission
  • The Basic Idea
  • Extraction of Boundary Voxels
  • Data Compression
    • Compression of Position Data
    • Compression of Gradient Direction Data
    • Compression of Other Data Channels
  • Data Transmission and Decompression
  • Results
  • Discussion
• RTVR - a Flexible Java Library for Interactive Volume Rendering
  • Features of RTVR
  • RTVR Intrinsics
    • RenderList as Data Representation
    • The RTVR Scene Graph
    • User Interaction
    • Rendering
    • Data Optimization
  • Performance
  • Discussion
• Sample Applications
  • Interactive Surface Rendering for Java-Based Diagnostic Applications
    • System Overview
    • Interaction Techniques
  • RTVR-Based Volume Viewer
  • Visualization of 3D Maps
    • Data Acquisition
    • Study of Bifurcations
• Summary
  • Preprocessing
  • Data Representation
  • Rendering
  • Space-Efficient Representation
• Conclusions
• Acknowledgements
• Further Resources
• Bibliography
• About this document ...

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