Isosurface extraction and interpretation on very large datasets in geophysics

In order to deal with the heavy trend in size increase of volumetric datasets, research in isosurface extraction has focused in the past few years on related aspects such as surface simplification and load balanced parallel algorithms. We present in this paper a parallel, bloc-wise extension of the tandem algorithm [Attali et al. 2005], which simplifies on the fly an isosurface being extracted. Our approach minimizes the overall memory consumption using an adequate bloc splitting and merging

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: SMA
• Authors: Guilhem Dupuy, Bruno Jobard, Sebastien Guillon, Noomane Keskes, Dimitri Komatitsch
• Keywords: Adequate Bloc Splitting, Attali Et Al, Heavy Trend, SMA 2008, Solid Modeling