Parallel Marching Blocks: A Practical Isosurfacing Algorithm for Large Data on Many-Core Architectures

• Published in: Computer graphics forum Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 211 - 220
• Main Authors: Liu, Baoquan, Clapworthy, Gordon J., Dong, Feng, Wu, Enhua
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2016
• Subjects: Algorithms; Analysis; Architecture; Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS); Central processing units; Computer graphics; Computer science; Consumption; CPUs; Footprints; I.3.3 [Computer Graphics]: Picture/Image Generation-Viewing Algorithms; Interactive; Interactive computer systems; Optimization; Platforms; State of the art; Studies; Visualization

Interactive isosurface visualisation has been made possible by mapping algorithms to GPU architectures. However, current state‐of‐the‐art isosurfacing algorithms usually consume large amounts of GPU memory owing to the additional acceleration structures they require. As a result, the continued limit...