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Space-Efficient Boundary Representation of Volumetric Objects

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Data Visualization 2001

Part of the book series: Eurographics ((EUROGRAPH))

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In this paper we present a compression technique for efficiently representing boundary objects from volumetric data-sets. Exploiting spatial coherency within object contours, we are able to reduce the size of the volumetric boundary down to the size of just a few images. Allowing for direct volume rendering of the down-scaled data in addition to compression ratios up to 250:1, interactive volume visualization becomes possible, even over the Internet and on low-end hardware.

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  1. VRVis Research Center, Vienna, Austria

    Lukas Mroz & Helwig Hauser

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  1. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

    David S. Ebert

  2. Data Mining & Visualization, CSCS, Manno, Switzerland

    Jean M. Favre

  3. Institut für wissenschaftliches Rechnen, ETH-Zentrum, IFW, Zürich, Switzerland

    Ronald Peikert

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Mroz, L., Hauser, H. (2001). Space-Efficient Boundary Representation of Volumetric Objects. In: Ebert, D.S., Favre, J.M., Peikert, R. (eds) Data Visualization 2001. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6215-6_21

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