RBF Volume Ray Casting on Multicore and Manycore CPUs

• Published in: Computer graphics forum Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 71 - 80
• Main Authors: Knoll, Aaron, Wald, Ingo, Navratil, Paul, Bowen, Anne, Reda, Khairi, Papka, Michael E., Gaither, Kelly
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2014
• Subjects: Algorithms; Analysis; Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS); Central processing units; Classification; Computer graphics; I.3.2 [Computer Graphics]: Graphics Systems-Distributed/network graphics; I.3.3 [Computer Graphics]: Picture/Image Generation-Line and curve generation; I.3.7 [Computer Graphics]: Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism-Raytracing; Kernels; Molecular dynamics; Reconstruction; Rendering; Sampling; Studies; Supercomputers

Modern supercomputers enable increasingly large N‐body simulations using unstructured point data. The structures implied by these points can be reconstructed implicitly. Direct volume rendering of radial basis function (RBF) kernels in domain‐space offers flexible classification and robust feature r...