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Hardware-Accelerated Particle-Based Volume Rendering for Multiple Irregular Volumes

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2008)

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In this paper, we propose a performance improvement of particle-based volume rendering (PBVR) by using a current, programmable GPU architecture. PBVR allows to render without visibility sorting by representing a given volume dataset as a set of opaque and emissive particles. In our new GPU acceleration of PBVR, we provide a switchable rendering pipeline that is compatible with both regular and irregular grid volumes. Particle generation is improved by using a cell-by-cell approach for processing large volume dataset. We also reduce the memory cost required for storing all sub-pixel values by proposing a pixel-superimposing technique targeting a large sub-pixel level. Our work demonstrates a full detail rendering rate from 5 to 11 fps for overlapped or separated multi-irregular volumes with a mega-scale number of volume cells on NVIDIA Geforce 8800GTX.

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  1. Center for the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education, Kyoto University, Japan

    Naohisa Sakamoto & Koji Koyamada

  2. Graduate School of Electrical Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan

    Ding Zhongming & Takuma Kawamura

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  5. Digital Image Research Center, Kingston University, London, UK

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Sakamoto, N., Zhongming, D., Kawamura, T., Koyamada, K. (2008). Hardware-Accelerated Particle-Based Volume Rendering for Multiple Irregular Volumes. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5359. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89646-3_97

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