In this 788 (WI11), Prof. Han-Wei Shen will teach different mathematics and algorithmic techniques for advanced visualization. Besides, the students are encouraged to work on projects. This page includes the information about the possible projects and related files to test and develop the algorithm.

PS. For those who are willing to use isotable or the NrrdIO library on Win32, you can refer to the procedure here.

Data sets

Type	Name	Description
Regular volumes	LINK local mirror	A subset of the benchmark used in the paper Revisiting Histograms and Isosurface Statistics. All the dataset can be downloaded from the first author's (Carlos E. Scheidegger) website: http://cscheid.net/.
Graph	LINK	S. Bender-deMoll and D.A. McFarland, SoNIA—Social Network Image Animator, http://www.stanford.edu/group/sonia/, 2007.
Graph	LINK	C. Walshaw, Graph Collection, http://staffweb.cms.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/partition/, 2007.
Vector fields		COMING SOON!

Presentation

Date	Name	Reference
01/13	Teng-Yok Lee	Bill Lorensen and H. Cline, Marching Cubes, a High Resolution 3D Surface Constructoin Algorithm. Proc. of SIGGRAPH’87, pp. 163-169, 1987.  (PDF) G. M. Nielson and B. Harmann, The asymptotic decider: resolving the ambiguity in marching cubes, Pros. of IEEE Visualization ’91 (PDF)
02/01	Renguo Fang	C. Bajaj, V. Pascucci, and D. R. Schikore, The Contour Spectrum, Proc. of IEEE Visualization ’97, pp. 167-175, 1997. [pdf]
02/03	Jiaqi Zhu	Hamish Carr, Brian Duffy, Brian Denby: On Histograms and Isosurface Statistics. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 12(5): 1259-1266 (2006).  [pdf]
02/08	Michael	Nelson Max, Optical Models for Direct Volume Rendering [pdf]
02/10	Xin Tong	Marc Levoy, Display of Surface from Volume Data, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 8, No. 3, May, 1988, pp. 29-37 [pdf]
02/15	Abon Chaudhuri Teng-Yok Lee	A Model for Volume Lighting and Modeling, Joe Kniss, Simon Premoze, Charles Hansen, Peter Shirley,Allen McPherson, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Vol. 9, No. 2, April 2003.  [pdf]
02/17	David	Peter Shirley and A. Tuchman, A Polygonal Approximation to Direct Scalar Volume Rendering, Computer Graphics, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 63-70, 1990 [pdf]