Chapter 6 Continuum Volume Display
Arie E. Kaufman and Lisa M. Sobierajski
THIS CHAPTER presents the terminology, important concepts, and methods for visualizing volume data. Volume data are obtained by sampling (such as Computed Tomography), simulation (such as those running on a supercomputer), or modeling (such as computer-aided design using synthetic geometric objects). Although volumetric representations and visualization techniques seem more natural for sampled and computed data sets, their advantages are also attracting traditional modeling applications.
Surface rendering algorithms for volume data are briefly described, in which an intermediate geometric representation of the data is used to generate an image of a surface contained ...
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