Hybrid shear-warp rendering

Shear-warp rendering is a fast and efficient method for visualizing a volume of sampled data based on a factorization of the viewing transformation into a shear and a warp. In shear-warp rendering, the volume is resampled, composited and warped to obtain the final image. Many applications, however,...

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Main Authors: Zakaria, Mohamed Nordin, Selvanathan, N.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya 1999
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/49455/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/49455/1/Hybrid%20shear-warp%20rendering.pdf
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author Zakaria, Mohamed Nordin
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description Shear-warp rendering is a fast and efficient method for visualizing a volume of sampled data based on a factorization of the viewing transformation into a shear and a warp. In shear-warp rendering, the volume is resampled, composited and warped to obtain the final image. Many applications, however, require a mixture of polygonal and volumetric data to be rendered together in a single image. This paper describes a new approach for extending the shear-warp rendering to simultaneously handle polygonal objects. A data structure, the zlist-buffe, is presented. It is basically a multilayered z-buffer. With the zlist-buffer, an object-based scan conversion of polygons requires only a simple modification of the standard polygon scan-conversion algorithm. This paper shows how the scan conversion can be integrated with shear-warp rendering of run-length encoded volume data to obtain quality images in real time. The utility and performance of the approach using a number of test renderings is also discussed.
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spelling upm-494552016-12-30T02:52:27Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/49455/ Hybrid shear-warp rendering Zakaria, Mohamed Nordin Selvanathan, N. Shear-warp rendering is a fast and efficient method for visualizing a volume of sampled data based on a factorization of the viewing transformation into a shear and a warp. In shear-warp rendering, the volume is resampled, composited and warped to obtain the final image. Many applications, however, require a mixture of polygonal and volumetric data to be rendered together in a single image. This paper describes a new approach for extending the shear-warp rendering to simultaneously handle polygonal objects. A data structure, the zlist-buffe, is presented. It is basically a multilayered z-buffer. With the zlist-buffer, an object-based scan conversion of polygons requires only a simple modification of the standard polygon scan-conversion algorithm. This paper shows how the scan conversion can be integrated with shear-warp rendering of run-length encoded volume data to obtain quality images in real time. The utility and performance of the approach using a number of test renderings is also discussed. Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya 1999 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/49455/1/Hybrid%20shear-warp%20rendering.pdf Zakaria, Mohamed Nordin and Selvanathan, N. (1999) Hybrid shear-warp rendering. Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, 12 (2). pp. 19-26. ISSN 0127-9084 http://e-journal.um.edu.my/publish/MJCS/136-151
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Hybrid shear-warp rendering
title Hybrid shear-warp rendering
title_full Hybrid shear-warp rendering
title_fullStr Hybrid shear-warp rendering
title_full_unstemmed Hybrid shear-warp rendering
title_short Hybrid shear-warp rendering
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url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/49455/
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http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/49455/1/Hybrid%20shear-warp%20rendering.pdf