Vol-a-Tile — A Tool for Interactive Exploration of Large Volumetric Data on Scalable Tiled Displays
2005Vol. 84, pp. 19p–19p
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Nina Schwarz, Shalini Venkataraman, Luc Renambot, Naveen K. Krishnaprasad, Venkatram Vishwanath, Jason Leigh, Andrew Johnson, G. M. Kent, A. Nayak
Abstract
We present the current state of Vol-a-Tile, an interactive tool for exploring large volumetric data on scalable tiled displays. Vol-a-Tile presents a variety of features employed by scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on data collected from the Anatomy of a Ridge-Axis Discontinuity seismic experiment. Hardware texture mapping and level-of-detail techniques provide interactivity. A high-performance network protocol is used to connect remote data sources over high-bandwidth photonic networks.