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Isocontour visualization for extremely large datasets poses challenging problems
for both computation and rendering with guaranteed frame rates. Large isosurfaces
are to be extracted in time-critical manner from those large datasets, whose
sizes are from multi-gigabytes to terabytes. As the size of the input data increases,
isocontouring algorithms necessarily need to be executed out-of-core and/or
on parallel machines for both efficiency and data accessibility. Our scalable
isosurface visualization solution on a commodity off-the-shelf cluster is an
end-to-end parallel and progressive platform, from the initial data access to
the final display. It partitions the volume data according to its workload spectrum
for load balancing and creates an I/O-optimal external interval tree to minimize
the number of I/O operations of loading large data from disk. It achieves scalability
to arbitrary size data by using both parallel processing and parallel disks.
Interactive browsing of extracted isosurfaces is made possible by using parallel
isosurface extraction and rendering in conjunction with a new specialized piece
of image compositing hardware called the Metabuffer.
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A very large isosurface of the Visible
Female (487,635,342 triangles)
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A Different view of the left isosurface
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The skeleton structure of the Visible Male
MRI data (6,442,810 triangles)
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| Load distribution of the Visible Male MRI data among 7 processors. |
Load distribution of the Visible Male MRI data among 31 processors. |
Load distribution of the Visible Female MRI data among 64 processors. |
Related Papers
X. Zhang, C. Bajaj, W. Blanke
Scalable Isosurface Visualization of Massive Datasets on COTS-Cluster
Proc. of IEEE 2001 Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics, pg. 51-58, San Diego, CA, 2001 (pdf)
C. Bajaj, V. Pascucci, D.Thompson, X.Y. Zhang
Parallel Accelerated
Isocontouring for Out-Of-Core Visualization, In Proceedings of IEEE
Parallel Visualization and Graphics Symposium, October 24-29,1999 San
Francisco, CA, pages 97 - 104. (ps) (pdf)
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