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

Created on October 10, 2004

2004   ·   paper   ·   papers   Applications   Visualization

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

  • Caption: 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.

Citation: Schwarz, N., Venkataraman, S., Renambot, L., Krishnaprasad, N., Vishwanath, V., Leigh, J., Johnson, A., Kent, G., Nayak, A., Vol-a-Tile - a Tool for Interactive Exploration of Large Volumetric Data on Scalable Tiled Displays, Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2004, Austin, Texas, 2004-10-10.