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This paper presents a pipeline for high quality volume rendering of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) datasets. We introduce a new method allowing high quality visualization of hexahedral cells in this context; this method avoids artifacts like discontinuities in the isosurfaces. To achieve this, we choose the number and placement of sampling points over the cast […]

In this paper, we present linked 2D/3D texture advection for the interactive exploration of 3D flow. 3D texture advection facilitates a dense representation of the 3D structure of unsteady flow but is subject to problems of occlusion and clutter. Therefore, it is difficult for the user to explore features in occluded regions. We overcome the […]

In this paper we propose a new paradigm for procedural modeling that enables the real time visualization of massive procedural scenes. For this, we use a combination of memory and task management with two well known procedural modeling paradigms: data amplification and lazy evaluation. Experimental results show that, in addition to obtaining performance gains through […]

We present a GPU supported interactive non-photorealistic rendering system, INSPIRE, which performs feature extraction in both image space, on intermediately rendered images, and object space, on models of various representations, e.g., point, polygon, or hybrid models, without needing connectivity information. INSPIRE obtains interactive NPR rendering with most styles of existing NPR systems, but offers more […]

Non-linear filtering is an important task for volume analysis. This paper presents hardware-based implementations of various non-linear filters for volume smoothing with edge preservation. The Cg high-level shading language is used in combination with latest PC consumer graphics hardware. Filtering is divided into pervertex and per-fragment stages. In both stages we propose techniques to increase […]

Realistic rain scenes animation is a complex task due to both the rendering and fluid dynamics simulation issues. The associated phenomena, like rain strokes rendering, splashing of raindrops and the simulation of the generated surface flow are known difficulties in this area. This paper describes a computational framework to incorporate these elements in a scene […]

Multi-touch capable displays are one of the central emerging technologies in Human Computer Interfaces and many commercial applications like the Apple iPhone or the Microsoft Surface already show the benefit of this interaction technique. But most of the applications are limited to 2D interaction and only little effort has been spent on intuitive 3D interaction […]

This work considers the acceleration of matrix-based computational electromagnetic (CEM) techniques using graphics processing units (GPUs). These massively parallel processors have gained much support since late 2006, with software tools such as CUDA and OpenCL greatly simplifying the process of harnessing the computational power of these devices. As with any advances in computation, the use […]

Real-time tessellation methods offer the ability to upsample 3D surface meshes on the fly during rendering. This upsampling relies on 3 major steps. First, it requires a tessellation kernel which can be implemented on GPU or may be already available as a hardware unit. Second, the surface model defines the positions of the newly inserted […]

Heterogeneous computing which includes mixed architectures with multi-core CPUs as well as hardware accelerators such as GPU hardware, is needed to satisfy future computational needs and energy requirements. Cloud computing currently offers users whose computational needs vary greatly over time, a cost-effect way to gain access to resources. While the current form of cloud-based systems […]

We present a novel reconfigurable hardware architecture for accelerating American option pricing using the binomial lattice algorithm. The architecture provides double precision floating point pricing, evaluating up to N = 64,000 time steps in the binomial lattice. Advanced memory management techniques and optimized control logic allow for 4-way parallelism on a single-asset evaluation. These techniques […]

We present an accelerated depth peeling algorithm for order-independent transparency rendering on graphics hardware. Unlike traditional depth peeling which only peels one layer of transparent pixels per rendering pass, our algorithm peels multiple layers simultaneously per rendering pass. Our acceleration is achieved via our fragment program which sorts and writes multiple fragment colors and depths […]