"Vol-a-Tile - a Tool for Interactive Exploration of Large Volumetric Data on Scalable Tiled Displays"

Created on October 10, 2004

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Vol-a-Tile - a Tool for Interactive Exploration of Large Volumetric Data on Scalable Tiled Displays

Schwarz, N., Venkataraman, S., Renambot, L., Krishnaprasad, N., Vishwanath, V., Leigh, J., Johnson, A., Kent, G., Nayak, A.

image Vol-a-Tile displaying the ARAD seismic experiment dataset Credit: L. Renambot, EVL

We present the current state of Vol-a-Tile, an interactive tool for exploring large volumetric data on scalable tiled displays. Vol-a-Tile presents a variety of features employed by scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on data collected from the Anatomy of a Ridge-Axis Discontinuity seismic experiment. Hardware texture mapping and level of-detail techniques provide interactivity. A high-performance network protocol is used to connect remote data sources over high-bandwidth photonic networks.