List of Figures

• 1.1. Phillips CT scanner (source: Wikimedia Commons)
• 1.2. 2D CT images (source: US Navy)
• 1.3. VolumeViz rendering
• 1.4. Marine seismic survey (source: The Open University)
• 1.5. 2D seismic visualization (source: USGS)
• 1.6. VolumeViz rendering (data courtesy CGG Veritas)
• 1.7. SoOrthoSlice, SoObliqueSlice, SoFenceSlice
• 1.8. Custom shader for co-blending multiple volumes
• 1.9. Volume clipped around a well bore
• 1.10. LDM tiles loaded to display one slice of the volume.
• 1.11. Different resolution levels (low to high).
• 1.12. Full data compared to LDM managed data.
• 1.13. Cylindrical volume rendering (ultrasound scan of pipe)
• 1.14. Default data range compared to window center/width of 65/90.
• 1.15. 3DHead.ldm
• 1.16. “3DHead.ldm” rotated
• 1.17. Slice rendering with and without lighting enabled.
• 1.18. Shadows on slices
• 1.19. Seismic data: LINEAR interpolation
• 1.20. MULTISAMPLE_12 interpolation
• 1.21. SoOrthoSlice default appearance
• 1.22. SoOrthoSlice with bump-mapping enabled
• 1.23. Multiple orthoslices
• 1.24. SoVolumeSkin default and with SoROI (Region of Interest)
• 1.25. Oblique slice
• 1.26. Fence slice – Y axis
• 1.27. Fence slices extruded along the X axis and the Z axis
• 1.28. Volume geometry
• 1.29. The four basic steps of volume ray casting: 1. Ray Casting 2. Sampling 3. Shading 4. Compositing.
• 1.30. Preintegration OFF
• 1.31. Preintegration ON
• 1.32. 256 samples, Jittering OFF
• 1.33. 256 samples, Jittering ON
• 1.34. For comparison: 512 samples, jittering OFF
• 1.35. cubicInterpolation OFF
• 1.36. cubicInterpolation ON
• 1.37. Lighting OFF
• 1.38. Lighting ON
• 1.39. Lighting plus shadows
• 1.40. Shadows: medical data
• 1.41. Shadows: seismic data. Courtesy CGG Veritas
• 1.42. gradientQuality = LOW
• 1.43. gradientQuality = MEDIUM
• 1.44. gradientQuality = HIGH
• 1.45. gradientThreshold = 0
• 1.46. gradientThreshold = 0.1
• 1.47. surfaceScalarExponent = 0
• 1.48. surfaceScalarExponent = 1
• 1.49. surfaceScalarExponent blend factor
• 1.50. edgeColor OFF
• 1.51. edgeColor with edgeThreshold = 0.5
• 1.52. edgeThreshold = 0.2
• 1.53. edgeColor = cyan (0,1,1)
• 1.54. Boundary opacity OFF
• 1.55. Boundary opacity ON
• 1.56. BoundaryOpacityItensity scale factor
• 1.57. Edge detection OFF
• 1.58. Edge detection by DEPTH
• 1.59. Edge detection by LUMINANCE
• 1.60. Edge detection by GRADIENT
• 1.61. MAX_INTENSITY_PROJECTION
• 1.62. MIN_INTENSITY_PROJECTION
• 1.63. AVERAGE_INTENSITY_PROJECTION
• 1.64. Normal rendering
• 1.65. Voxelized rendering
• 1.66. Isovalues 30 and 170
• 1.67. Isosurface with specular highlights
• 1.68. Isosurface with shadows
• 1.69. Isosurface with transparency
• 1.70. Multiple very large seismic horizon surfaces (courtesy CGG Veritas)
• 1.71. No property
• 1.72. Property = height values
• 1.73. Property = RGBA image
• 1.74. Height field 300,000 triangles
• 1.75. Height field 30,000 triangles
• 1.76. Volume “probe” using SoROI with seismic data
• 1.77. Scene graph to clip a volume against a sphere
• 1.78. Concave clipping shape
• 1.79. clipping a volume against a sphere with clipOutside = FALSE
• 1.80. Clipping between two horizon surfaces
• 1.81. Shader Rendering Pipeline
• 1.82. Scene graph for CPU composition of two data sets
• 1.83. CPU composition of two data sets using the multiply operator
• 1.84. DataInfoBox query
• 1.85. DataInfoTrace query
• 1.86. DataInfoLine query
• 1.87. DataInfoPolyLine query
• 1.88. DataInfoPlanequery
• 2.1. Multiple inheritance example
• 2.2. Enhanced coloring on the left and OpenGL coloring on the right
• 2.3. Demo QuadraticWheelHexa27 with a basic tessellator.
• 2.4. Demo QuadraticWheelHexa27 with a geometrical tessellator
• 2.5. Example showing a green isosurface with a transparent red mesh skin. No data set is mapped onto this isosurface
• 2.6. Example showing an isosurface with a transparent red mesh skin. The isosurface is extracted from a first scalar dataset and colored with a second one.
• 2.7. Example showing the skin of a mesh colored by a scalar dataset. The cell edges are also displayed
• 2.8. Example showing a white mesh outline with a transparent red mesh skin.
• 2.9. Example showing a logical slice with a white mesh outline extracted from an hexahedron IJK mesh containing faults.
• 2.10. Example showing a plane slice inside a volume mesh represented by a red and transparent mesh skin
• 2.11. Example showing 4 intersection points between the red line mesh and the plane defined by the white jack dragger
• 2.12. Examples showing a set of streamlines starting from the red circle. These lines are inside a volume mesh represented by a red and transparent mesh skin
• 2.13. idem with other position of the streamlines starting points.
• 2.14. Unstructured mesh displayed by using a MoMeshCellShape on the left part and a MoMeshSkin on the right part.
• 2.15. Artifacts on cells having curved edges
• 2.16. Example of additional nodes for 1D cells
• 2.17. Example of additional nodes for 2D cells
• 2.18. Example of additional nodes for 3D cells
• 2.19. Example of cubic triangle cell
• 2.20. Example of quadratic rectangular base cell
• 2.21.
• 2.22.
• 2.23.
• 2.24.
• 2.25. Drawing using shape functions
• 2.26. Untesselated quadratic shape
• 2.27. The tesselation step
• 2.28. Surface tesselation
• 2.29. MiEdgeErrorMetric
• 2.30. MxEdgeErrorMetricGeometry
• 2.31. Face F has different decomposition in cell C1 and C2
• 2.32. Face F has the same decomposition in cell C1 and C2
• 2.33. Demo QuadraticHexa20:
• 2.34. Demo QuadraticHexa20:
• 2.35. Demo QuadraticHexa27:
• 2.36. Demo QuadraticHexa27:
• 2.37. Demo QuadraticWedge18:
• 2.38. Demo QuadraticWedge18:
• 2.39. 2D/3D shape node classes
• 2.40. GraphMaster node classes
• 2.41. Axis node classes
• 2.42. Main axis attributes
• 2.43. Enhanced business graphics property nodes
• 2.44. 1D mesh classes
• 2.45. Property node classes for charting
• 2.46. Enhanced business graphics node classes
• 2.47. GraphMaster axis editor classes
• 2.48. GraphMaster legend editor classes
• 2.49. 2D mesh classes
• 2.50. Surface mesh representation node classes
• 2.51. 3D mesh classes
• 2.52. Volume mesh representation node classes
• 2.53. Common mesh representation node classes
• 2.54. Legend node classes
• 2.55. Different value legends
• 3.1. ScaleViz scene graph synchronization
• 3.2. Application sending request for cluster configuration to ScaleViz daemon
• 3.3. ScaleViz network once application is connected to the cluster through gateway
• 3.4. Automatic scene distribution for an even number of nodes
• 3.5. Automatic scene distribution for an odd number of nodes
• 3.6. Interacting with fields of SoScaleVizParameters node
• 3.7. Interacting with fields of SoRemoteParams node
• 3.8. Interacting with fields of SoTileComposerParams node
• 3.9. Interacting with fields of SoDepthComposerParams node
• 3.10. Immersive view
• 3.11. From the $OIVHOME/Inventor/example/ToolMaker 02.NodesDLL example
• 3.12. ScaleViz configuration file
• 3.13. Four flat screens
• 3.14. Example of RIGHT_LEFT configuration using one pipe
• 3.15. Edge overlapping
• 3.16. RIGHT-LEFT flat screen configuration using overlapping
• 3.17. Configuring three flat screens using edge overlapping
• 3.18. Illustration of the view volumes with three SoScreens
• 3.19. View volumes with two SoFlatScreens (right) compared wth standard view volume (left)
• 4.1. VectorizeAction classes
• 4.2. Vector output classes
• 4.3. HardCopy monitor classes
• 4.4. Open Inventor to PDF3D conversion tool.
• 4.5. Harley.iv exported to PDF3D view.
• 5.1. examples of available DirectViz demo .iv files
• 5.2. Thickness computation
• 5.3. Ray-tracing modeling light paths
• 5.4. DirectViz rendering – notice the rendering details not possible with OpenGL
• 5.5. From OpenGL to DirectViz rendering
• 5.6. The DirectViz control dialog
• 5.7. Sub-sampling factor 0.1, 0.5, 1.0 (full resolution)
• 5.8. Recursion limit 1, 2, 6
• 5.9. Environment reflections on car paint, chrome and glass
• 5.10. Bump mapping on car interior materials
• 5.11. Adding an environment shader
• 5.12. 16 environment lights with no accumulation, 5 accumulations, 10 accumulations
• 5.13. Left: default reflectiveColor 0 0 0, right: reflectiveColor set to 0.2 0.2 0.2
• 5.14. No fuzzy effects, fuzzy effects, accumulated fuzzy effects
• 5.15. No Glossy Surfaces Effects, Glossy Surfaces Effects, accumulated Glossy Surfaces Effects
• 5.16. Without shadows, with hard shadows, with soft shadows
• 5.17. Adding bump map to the floor
• 5.18. Floor texture and corresponding normal map
• 5.19. Combined effects, without accumulation and with accumulation
• 5.20. Diffuse shader
• 5.21. Phong shader
• 5.22. Phong shader enhanced with Bump Mapping
• 5.23. Phong shader enhanced with transparent textures
• 5.24. Car paint shader with specularColor 0.4 0.4 0.4 and shininess 6
• 5.25. Car paint shader with specularColor 1 1 1 and and shininess 64
• 5.26. RTXGlass shader (sphere) and RTXPhong shader (cube)
• 5.27. RTXGlass and RTXPhong shaders enhanced with glossy surfaces effects
• 5.28. RTXGlass shader enhanced with Bump Mapping
• 5.29. DirectViz cluster configuration example (1 master and 4 slaves)
• 6.1. TerrainViz classes
• 6.2. TerrainViz mesh density
• 6.3. Hole contour qualities (left, quality is 0.5; right, quality is 1.0)
• 6.4. Texture neighborhood with level information
• 6.5. TerrainViz texture quadtree
• 6.6. TerrainViz texture mapping
• 6.7. Color contouring
• 6.8. Color shading
• 6.9. Geodetic system
• 6.10. Azimuthal projection
• 6.11. Conic projection
• 6.12. Data preprocessing
• 6.13. Texture preprocessing
• 6.14. Preprocessing
• 6.15. Terrain viewer
• 6.16. Grand Canyon visualized with TerrainViz