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In this paper we propose a particle-based volume rendering approach for unstructured, three-dimensional, tetrahedral polygon meshes. We stochastically generate millions of particles per second and project them on the screen in real-time. In contrast to previous rendering techniques of tetrahedral volume meshes, our method does not need a prior depth sorting of geometry. Instead, the rendered image is generated by choosing particles closest to the camera. Furthermore, we use spatial superimposing. Each pixel is constructed from multiple subpixels. This approach not only increases projection accuracy, but allows also a combination of subpixels into one superpixel that creates the well-known translucency effect of volume rendering. We show that our method is fast enough for the visualization of unstructured three-dimensional grids with hard real-time constraints and that it scales well for a high number of particles.
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Voglreiter, P., Steinberger, M., Schmalstieg, D., Kainz, B. (2012). Volumetric Real-Time Particle-Based Representation of Large Unstructured Tetrahedral Polygon Meshes. In: Levine, J.A., Paulsen, R.R., Zhang, Y. (eds) Mesh Processing in Medical Image Analysis 2012. MeshMed 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7599. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33463-4_16
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