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3DIVE: An immersive environment for interactive volume data exploration

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This paper describes an immersive system, called 3DIVE, for interactive volume data visualization and exploration inside the CAVE virtual environment. Combining interactive volume rendering and virtual reality provides a natural immersive environment for volumetric data visualization. More advanced data exploration operations, such as object level data manipulation, simulation and analysis, are supported in 3 DIVE by several new techniques. In particular, volume primitives and texture regions are used for the rendering, manipulation, and collision detection of volumetric objects; and the region-based rendering pipeline is integrated with 3D image filters to provide an image-based mechanism for interactive transfer function design. The system has been recently released as public domain software for CAVE/ImmersaDesk users, and is currently being actively used by various scientific and biomedical visualization projects.

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  1. Advanced Visualization Laboratory, Indiana University, 46202, Indianapolis, IN, USA

    Michael Boyles

  2. Department of Computer and Information Science, Indiana University, Purdue University Indianapolis, 723 W. Michigan St., SL 280, 46202, Indianapolis, IN, USA

    Fang ShiaoFen

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Michael Boyles received his M.S. degree in computer science from Purdue University Indianapolis in 2001, and is currently the lead research programmer in the Advanced Visualization Lab at Indiana University. His research interests lie in the area of 3D computer graphics and visualization, in particular collaborative visualization, volume visualization, virtual reality and haptics.

Fang ShiaoFen received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from University of Utah, and M.S. and B.S. degrees from Zhejiang University, China. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at Purdue University Indianapolis. His main research interests are in volume visualization, computer graphics, volume graphics, biomedical imaging, and virtual environment.

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Boyles, M., Fang, S. 3DIVE: An immersive environment for interactive volume data exploration. J. Comput. Sci. & Technol. 18, 41–47 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02946649

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