2003 · 34 citations · 6 references
ComputingComputer ScienceHigh-performance ComputingComputational GeometryParallel ComputingScientific ComputingData ParallelismGeometry ProcessingIsosurface ExtractionMesh GenerationSurface ReconstructionSurface VisualizationData-parallel AlgorithmsInteractive Isosurface ExtractionIsosurfacingParallel Isosurface ExtractionParallel Mesh GenerationSimd ArchitecturesSimd ExecutionSurface Extraction
Experiences during the investigation of parallel methods for faster isosurface generation on SIMD (single instruction stream, multiple data stream) machines are described. A sequential version of a well-known isosurfacing algorithm is algorithmically enhanced for a particular type of SIMD architecture. The SIMD implementation takes full advantage of the data parallel nature of the algorithm, and experiments have proven the implementation to be highly scalable. A parallel tool, which can generate 170 K polygons/s, gives scientists the means to explore large 3D scalar or vector fields interactively.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
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Efficient ray tracing of volume data
Marc Levoy · ACM Transactions on Graphics · 1990 · 995 citations · Full text
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The asymptotic decider: resolving the ambiguity in marching cubes
Gregory M. Nielson, Bernd Hamann · 2002 · 253 citations