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This paper presents structural relationship preservation as a technique for improving efficiency of volume rendering-based 3D data analysis. In the presented approach, a mapping between data and renderings is defined and volumetric object appearances are determined by structural relationships of interest in the data space. Two typical relationships of inclusion and neighboring are defined, extracted, represented, and revealed in volume rendering in the pipeline. The structural relationship representation, which is controlled by a contour tree, allows users to perceive relationships, and to control how and what structural relationships are revealed in the pipeline. The experimental results show that structural relationship preservation in volume rendering provides more intuitive and physically meaningful renderings.
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Zhou, J., Takatsuka, M. (2009). Structural Relationship Preservation in Volume Rendering. In: Lee, R., Hu, G., Miao, H. (eds) Computer and Information Science 2009. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 208. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01209-9_21
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