Polys, Nicholas F.Wood, AndrewShinpaugh, Patrick2013-06-192013-06-192012http://hdl.handle.net/10919/19424Volume 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.application/pdfenIn CopyrightInformation visualizationDigital librariesVirtual environmentsTechnical reportTR-12-03http://eprints.cs.vt.edu/archive/00001177/01/X3D_volvis_wood_polys_2011.pdf