Enhancing the interactive visualization of procedurally encoded multifield data with ellipsoidal basis functions

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 587-596

  Jang, Yun ^a   Botchen, Ralf P ^b   Lauser, Andreas ^b   Ebert, David S ^a   Gaither, Kelly P ^c   Ertl, Thomas ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA REDUCTION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA VISUALIZATION; FUNCTIONS; HARDWARE; HEAT CONDUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS); SPHERES; VISUALIZATION;

ENCODING OPTIMIZATION; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; VOLUMETRIC APPROXIMATION; ELLIPSOIDAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; FUNCTIONAL APPROXIMATION; GAUSSIAN RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; RADIALLY SYMMETRIC; VISUALIZATION SYSTEM;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FUNCTION EVALUATION;

EID: 33845404812     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2006.00978.x     Document Type: Article

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