A Case Study of Isosurface Extraction Algorithm Performance
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Date
2000
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Isosurface extraction is an important and useful visualization method. Over the past ten years, the field has seen numerous isosurface techniques published, leaving the user in a quandary about which one should be used. Some papers have published complexity analysis of the techniques, yet empirical evidence comparing different methods is lacking. This case study presents a comparative study of several representative isosurface extraction algorithms. It reports and analyzes empirical measurements of execution times and memory behavior for each algorithm. The results show that asymptotically optimal techniques may not be the best choice when implemented on modern computer architectures.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:VisSym/VisSym00/259-268,
booktitle = {Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization},
editor = {W. de Leeuw and R. van Liere},
title = {{A Case Study of Isosurface Extraction Algorithm Performance}},
author = {Sutton, Philip M. and Hansen, Charles D. and Shen, Han-Wei and Schikore, Dan},
year = {2000},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {1727-5296},
ISBN = {3211835156},
DOI = {10.2312/VisSym/VisSym00/259-268}
}