Scientific visualization : the visual extraction of knowledge from data

One of the greatest scientific challenges of the 21st century is how to master, organize and extract useful knowledge from the overwhelming flow of information made available by today's data acquisition systems and computing resources. Visualization is the premium means of taking up this challenge. This book is based on selected lectures given by leading experts in scientific visualization during a workshop held at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. Topics include user issues in visualization, large data visualization, unstructured mesh processing for visualization, volumetric visualization, flow visualization, medical visualization and visualization systems. The book contains more than 350 color illustrations.

Benjamin F. Gregorski and David F. Wiley and Henry R. Childs and Bernd Hamann and Kenneth I. JoyJoao L.D. Comba and Joseph S.B. Mitchell and Claudio T. SilvaFabien Vivodtzev and Lars Linsen and Bernd Hamann and Kenneth I. Joy and Bruno A. OlshausenChang Ha Lee and Amitabh VarshneyRonald Peikert and Christian SiggLeila De Floriani and Emanuele DanovaroGregory M. Nielson and Hans Hagen and Kun Lee and Adam HuangManfred Weiler and Martin Kraus and Stefan Guthe and Thomas Ertl and Wolfgang StraberKlaus Mueller and Sarang Lakare and Arie KaufmanArie Kaufman and Sarang LakareDavid Rodgman and Min ChenShigeo Takahashi and Yuriko Takeshima and Issei Fujishiro and Gregory M. NielsonArmin Kanitsar and Dominik Fleischmann and Rainer Wegenkittl and Meister Eduard GrollerJulia Ebling and Gerik ScheuermannXavier Tricoche and Christoph Garth and Gerik ScheuermannMarkus Rutten and Hans-Georg PagendarmThomas Wischgoll and Joerg MeyerHelwig HauserAchim Ebert and Ingo Ginkel and Hans HagenLining Yang and Roger CrawfisRolf Hendrik van Lengen and Paul Marrow and Thies Bahr and Hans Hagen and Erwin Bonsma and Cefn HoileKelly Gaither and David S. EbertKen Brodlie and Sally Mason and Martin Thompson and Mark Walkley and Jason WoodJoerg Meyer and Thomas Wischgoll

Part I Meshes for Visualization
Adaptive Contouring with Quadratic Tetrahedra	p. 3
On the Convexification of Unstructured Grids from a Scientific Visualization Perspective	p. 17
Brain Mapping Using Topology Graphs Obtained by Surface Segmentation	p. 35
Computing and Displaying Intermolecular Negative Volume for Docking	p. 49
Optimized Bounding Polyhedra for GPU-Based Distance Transform	p. 65
Generating, Representing and Querying Level-Of-Detail Tetrahedral Meshes	p. 79
Split 'N Fit: Adaptive Fitting of Scattered Point Cloud Data	p. 97
Part II Volume Visualization and Medical Visualization
Ray Casting with Programmable Graphics Hardware	p. 115
Volume Exploration Made Easy Using Feature Maps	p. 131
Fantastic Voyage of the Virtual Colon	p. 149
Volume Denoising for Visualizing Refraction	p. 163
Emphasizing Isosurface Emheddings in Direct Volume Rendering	p. 185
Diagnostic Relevant Visualization of Vascular Structures	p. 207
Part III Vector Field Visualization
Clifford Convolution and Pattern Matching on Irregular Grids	p. 231
Fast and Robust Extraction of Separation Line Features	p. 249
Fast Vortex Axis Calculation Using Vortex Features and Identification Algorithms	p. 265
Topological Features in Vector Fields	p. 287
Part IV Visualization Systems
Generalizing Focus+Context Visualization	p. 305
Rule-based Morphing Techniques for Interactive Clothing Catalogs	p. 329
A Practical System for Constrained Interactive Walkthroughs of Arbitrarily Complex Scenes	p. 345
Component Based Visualisation of Diet Applications	p. 367
Facilitating the Visual Analysis of Large-Scale Unsteady Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations	p. 385
Evolving Dataflow Visualization Environments to Grid Computing	p. 395
Earthquake Visualization Using Large-scale Ground Motion and Structural Response Simulations	p. 409
Author Index	p. 433

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