Real-time view-dependent extraction of isosurfaces from adaptively refined octrees and tetrahedral meshes
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We describe an adaptive isosurface visualization scheme designed for perspective rendering, taking into account the center of interest and other viewer-specified parameters. To hierarchically decompose a given data domain into a multiresolution data structure, we implement and compare two spatial subdivision data structures: an octree and a recursively defined tetrahedral mesh based on longest-edge bisection. We have implemented our view-dependent isosurface visualization approach using both data structures -comparing storage requirements, computational efficiency, and visual quality.
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