VolumeShop: An Interactive System for Direct Volume Illustration

Illustrations play a major role in the education process. Whether used to teach a surgical or radiologic procedure, to illustrate normal or aberrant anatomy, or to explain the functioning of a technical device, illustration significantly impacts learning. Although many specimens are readily available as volumetric data sets, particularly in medicine, illustrations are commonly produced manually as static images in a time-consuming process. Our goal is to create a fully dynamic three-dimensional illustration environment which directly operates on volume data. Single images have the aesthetic appeal of traditional illustrations, but can be interactively altered and explored. In this paper we present methods to realize such a system which combines artistic visual styles and expressive visualization techniques. We introduce a novel concept for direct multi-object volume visualization which allows control of the appearance of inter-penetrating objects via two-dimensional transfer function...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: VISUALIZATION
• Authors: Stefan Bruckner, M. Eduard Gröller
• Keywords: Direct Multi-object Volume, Dynamic Three-dimensional Illustration, Illustration, Visualization, VISUALIZATION 2005