Imaged Based Streamline
Generation and Rendering
Imaged Based Streamline
Generation and Rendering
Abstract
Imaged Based Streamline Generation and Rendering
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Liya Li and Han-Wei Shen, 2007
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Animation is an effective way to show how time-varying phenomena evolve over time. A key issue of generating a good animation is to select ideal views through which the user can perceive the maximum amount of information from the time-varying dataset.
In this paper, we rst propose an improved view selection method for static data. The method measures the quality of a static view by analyzing the opacity, color and curvature distributions of the corresponding volume rendering images from the given view. Our view selection metric prefers an even opacity distribution with a larger projection area, a larger area of salient features' colors with an even distribution among the salient features, and more perceived curvatures.
We use this static view selection method and a dynamic programming approach to select time-varying views. The time-varying view selection maximizes the information perceived from the time-varying dataset based on the constraints
that the time-varying view should show smooth changes of direction and near-constant speed.
We also introduce a method that allows the user to generate a smooth transition between any two views in a given time step, with the perceived information maximized as well. By combining the static and dynamic view selection methods, the users are able to generate a time-varying view that shows the maximum amount of information from a time-varying data set.
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