List of Figures

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Figure 1-1. OpenGL Volumizer in Relation to Other Graphics APIs

Figure 1-2. Volview: OpenGL Multipipe Volume Viewer Application

Figure 2-1. The Shape Node

Figure 2-2. A More Complex Scene Graph

Figure 2-3. Render Actions

Figure 2-4. Shaders

Figure 2-5. Shape Node in Sample Application

Figure 3-1. The Shape Node

Figure 3-2. Modification of Shape Node from Sample Application

Figure 3-3. Construction of vzUnstructuredTetraMesh with Two Tetras

Figure 4-1. Viewport-Aligned Sampling Planes, 3D Textures Sampling Planes, and Final Image after Back-to-Front Compositing

Figure 4-2. Original vzBlock and Corresponding Tessellation

Figure 4-3. Back-to-Front Composited Slices for One, Three, and Five Tetrahedra

Figure 4-4. Managing, Unmanaging, and Drawing Shapes

Figure 4-5. vzTMSimpleShader

Figure 4-6. vzTMLUTShader

Figure 4-7. vzTMTangentSpaceShader

Figure 4-8. vzTMTag Shader

Figure 4-9. Data ROI and Geometry ROI of a Texture

Figure 4-10. Original Texture and Texture after Modifying the Geometry ROI

Figure 4-11. Head Image and Its Lookup Table

Figure 4-12. Skull of the Head and Its Lookup Table

Figure 4-13. Volume Rendering Pipeline

Figure 4-14. Texture Bricking

Figure 4-15. Reusing Texture Objects

Figure 4-16. Spherical Slicing

Figure 6-1. Clip Texture Hierarchy in Two Dimensions

Figure 6-2. Subsampled Volume Data

Figure 6-3. A Shape Node Using a Volume Texture

Figure 6-4. A Shape Node Using a Clip Texture

Figure 6-5. The Volume Buffer

Figure 6-6. Preprocess Texture Data

Figure 6-7. Data Decimation

Figure 6-8. Rendering a Scene

Figure 7-1. Blunt Fin Dataset (Wireframe Model)

Figure 7-2. Tetrahedron Projected into Screen Space

Figure 7-3. Blunt Fin Dataset

Figure 9-1. A Complex Scene Graph

Figure 9-2. Volume and Opaque Geometry Integrated in a Single Scene

Figure 9-3. Multipipe Architecture

Figure 9-4. Dynamic versus Static Load Balancing

Figure 9-5. DB Decomposition

Figure 9-6. DPLEX Decomposition