Multiresolution MIP Rendering of Large Volumetric Data Accelerated on Graphics Hardware
Institute for Mathematics and Computing Science, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
Eurographics / IEEE-VGTC Symposium on Visualization (2007)
@conference{van2007multiresolution,
title={Multiresolution MIP rendering of large volumetric data accelerated on graphics hardware},
author={van der Laan, W.J. and Jalba, A.C. and Roerdink, J.B.T.M.},
booktitle={EuroVis07–Eurographics/IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization},
pages={243–250},
year={2007},
organization={Citeseer}
}
This paper is concerned with a multiresolution representation for maximum intensity projection (MIP) volume rendering based on morphological pyramids which allows progressive refinement. We consider two algorithms for progressive rendering from the morphological pyramid: one which projects detail coefficients level by level, and a second one, called streaming MIP, which resorts the detail coefficients of all levels simultaneously with respect to decreasing magnitude of a suitable error measure. The latter method outperforms the level-by-level method, both with respect to image quality with a fixed amount of detail data, and in terms of flexibility of controlling approximation error or computation time. We improve the streaming MIP algorithm, present a GPU implementation for both methods, and perform a comparison with existing CPU and GPU implementations.
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