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Title: Adaptive Multilinear Tensor Product Wavelets

Journal Article · · IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
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  1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Many foundational visualization techniques including isosurfacing, direct volume rendering and texture mapping rely on piecewise multilinear interpolation over the cells of a mesh. However, there has not been much focus within the visualization community on techniques that efficiently generate and encode globally continuous functions defined by the union of multilinear cells. Wavelets provide a rich context for analyzing and processing complicated datasets. In this paper, we exploit adaptive regular refinement as a means of representing and evaluating functions described by a subset of their nonzero wavelet coefficients. We analyze the dependencies involved in the wavelet transform and describe how to generate and represent the coarsest adaptive mesh with nodal function values such that the inverse wavelet transform is exactly reproduced via simple interpolation (subdivision) over the mesh elements. This allows for an adaptive, sparse representation of the function with on-demand evaluation at any point in the domain. In conclusion, we focus on the popular wavelets formed by tensor products of linear B-splines, resulting in an adaptive, nonconforming but crack-free quadtree (2D) or octree (3D) mesh that allows reproducing globally continuous functions via multilinear interpolation over its cells.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-07NA27344
OSTI ID:
1415549
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-644249
Journal Information:
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 22, Issue 1; ISSN 1077-2626
Publisher:
IEEECopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 5 works
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