Cross-Platform Presentation of Interactive Volumetric Imagery

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TR-12-03
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2012
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Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Abstract

Volume data is useful across many disciplines, not just medicine. Thus, it is very important that researchers have a simple and lightweight method of sharing and reproducing such volumetric data. In this paper, we explore some of the challenges associated with volume rendering, both from a classical sense and from the context of Web3D technologies. We describe and evaluate the pro- posed X3D Volume Rendering Component and its associated styles for their suitability in the visualization of several types of image data. Additionally, we examine the ability for a minimal X3D node set to capture provenance and semantic information from outside ontologies in metadata and integrate it with the scene graph.

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Information visualization, Digital libraries, Virtual environments
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