Design of a Flexible Monolithic Visualization System

Contents:

1. Keywords
2. Abstract
3. Introduction
4. System Design Issues
5. Data Modeling
   5.1 Data Sources and Formats
   5.2 A Calculator for Flexible Filtering
   5.3 Reducing Data Complexity
   
6. Flexible Mapping With Efficient Data Access
7. Hybrid Rendering for Scientific Visualization
8. User Interface
9. Advanced Display and Interaction Techniques
10. Closing the Loop
    10.1 Geometric Conversion and Editing
    10.2 Online Visualization
    
11. Application Projects
    11.1 Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
    11.2 Medical Applications
    11.3 Geo Science
    11.4 Environmental Visualization
    11.5 Fracture Mechanics
    
12. Conclusion
13. References
14. Contacts

1. Keywords

Large data sets, Mapping techniques, Hybrid rendering, Steering and control, Visual analysis, Visualization system architecture, Interactive visualization, Scientific visualization

2. Abstract

This paper describes the design of an interactive visualization system for structured and unstructured volume data (FE, MRI, etc.). For reasons of performance and user friendliness, a monolithic architecture was chosen. The system is a flexible tool that allows the user to experiment with different filtering, mapping, and rendering techniques in order to find the best solution for each specific problem. It is shown that dataflow systems have certain drawbacks and that for many real-life applications a monolithic system can be the better choice. ISVAS is such a system which comprises many concepts for flexible high performance visualization in a monolithic system.

14. Contacts

Thomas Fruehauf (fruehauf)@igd.fhg.de,
Martin Goebel (goebel@igd.fhg.de),
Helmut Haase (haase@igd.fhg.de),
Kennet Karlsson (karlsson@igd.fhg.de)