Scientific Visualization Publications

Scientific Visualization Publications

by Professors Jane Wilhelms and Allen Van Gelder and their students and collaborators.

Van Gelder, Allen, Vivek Verma, and Jane Wilhelms, 1999. ``Volume Decimation of Irregular Tetrahedral Grids,'' Computer Graphics International 1999 Conference Proceedings.


Gibbs, Jonathon, Allen Van Gelder, Vivek Verma, and Jane Wilhelms, 1997. ``Rapid Decimation for Direct Volume Rendering,'' UCSC CS Dept. Technical Report.


Wilhelms, Jane, Allen Van Gelder, Paul Tarantino, and Jonathon Gibbs, 1996. ``Hierarchical Parallelizable Direct Volume Rendering for Irregular and Multiple Grids," IEEE Visualization '96 Conference Proceedings.

Van Gelder, Allen and Kwansik Kim, 1996. "Direct Volume Rendering with Shading via 3D Textures", ACM/IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization, October, 1996, San Francisco, Ca. See also technical report UCSC-CRL-96-16.

Wilhelms, Jane, Paul Tarantino, and Allen Van Gelder, 1996. ``Parallel Direct Volume Rendering for Multiple Overlapping Curvilinear Grids,'' two-page abstract in the 15th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Fluid Dynamics, June, 1996, Monterey, California.

Kim, Kwansik, Allen Van Gelder, and Jane Wilhelms, 1995. ``Hierarchically Accelerated Ray Casting for Volume Rendering with Controlled Error," UCSC Technical Report UCSC-CRL-95-31.

Wilhelms, Jane, and Allen Van Gelder, 1994. ``Multi-dimensional Trees for Controlled Volume Rendering and Compression," 1994 ACM Symposium on Volume Visualization, pp. 27--34, October, 1994.

Wilhelms, Jane, Allen Van Gelder, Tom Goodman, Ronald MacCracken, Orion Wilson, and Andy John, 1994. ``Design Decisions for a Direct Volume Renderer User Interface -- Some Whys and Hows," in Proceedings of SPIE Conference Visual Data Exploration and Analysis, pp. 102--113, San Jose, February 7--8, 1994.

Van Gelder, Allen and Jane Wilhelms, 1994. ``Doing It with Mirrors: Low Budget Stereo Graphics," in Proceedings of SPIE Conference Visual Data Exploration and Analysis, pp. 68--77, San Jose February 7--8, 1994.

Van Gelder, Allen and Jane Wilhelms, 1994. ``Topological Considerations in Isosurface Generation," ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 4, October 1994, pg. 337--375. Extended abstract appeared in the ACM Workshop on Volume Visualization, San Diego, December 1990, and in a special issue of the ACM Siggraph Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 5, November 1990, pp. 79--86.

Wilson, Orion, Allen Van Gelder, and Jane Wilhelms, 1994. ``Direct Volume Rendering via 3D Textures," UCSC Technical Report UCSC-CRL-94-19.

Wilhelms, Jane, 1993. ``Pursuing Interactive Visualization of Irregular Grids,'' The Visual Computer, Vol. 9, Number 8, August 1993, pp. 450--458.

Van Gelder, Allen and Jane Wilhelms, 1993. ``Rapid Exploration of Curvilinear Grids Using Direct Volume Rendering'', in Proceedings of IEEE Visualization `93, October 1993.

Van Gelder, Allen and Jane Wilhelms, 1992. ``Interactive Animated Visualization of Flow Fields," in Proceedings of ACM Workshop on Volume Visualization, Boston, MA, October 1992, pp. 47--54.

Wilhelms, Jane and Allen Van Gelder, 1992. ``Octrees for Faster Isosurface Generation," ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 11, No. 3, July 1992, pg. 201--227. Extended abstract appeared in the ACM Workshop on Volume Visualization, San Diego, December 1990, and in a special issue of the ACM Siggraph Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 5, November 1990, pg. 57--62.

Wilhelms, Jane, 1992. ``Pursuing Interactive Visualization of Irregular Grids," invited paper appeared in Proceedings of the GMD Workshop in Interactive Volume Visualization, Bonn, Germany, June 1992.

Wilhelms, Jane and Allen Van Gelder, 1991. ``A Coherent Projection Approach for Direct Volume Rendering," Computer Graphics (Proceedings ACM Siggraph '91), Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 275--284, August 1991.

Wilhelms, Jane and Allen Van Gelder, 1990. ``Octrees for Faster Isosurface Generation," extended abstract appeared in the Proceedings of {\em ACM Workshop on Volume Visualization, San Diego, December 1990, and in a special issue of the {\em ACM Siggraph Quarterly,} Vol. 24, No. 5, November 1990, pp. 57--62.

Wilhelms, Jane and Allen Van Gelder, 1990. ``Topological Considerations in Isosurface Generation," extended abstract appeared in the ACM Workshop on Volume Visualization, San Diego, December 1990, and in a special issue of the ACM Siggraph Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 5, November 1990, pp. 79--86.

Wilhelms, Jane, Judy Challinger, Naim Alper, and Shankar Ramamoorthy, 1990. ``Direct Volume Rendering of Curvilinear Volumes," appeared in ACM Workshop on Volume Visualization, San Diego, December 1990, and in special issue of the ACM Siggraph Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 5, November 1990, pp. 41--48.

Wilhelms, Jane, 1990. ``Visualizing Sampled Volume Data," in Scientific Visualization and Graphical Simulation, ed. D. Thalmann, John Wiley & Sons Publishers, pg 77--90.