A Survey of Transfer Functions Suitable for Volume Rendering

Arens, Stephan; Domik, Gitta

A Survey of Transfer Functions Suitable for Volume Rendering

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Date

2010

Authors

Arens, Stephan
Domik, Gitta

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

There are many transfer functions (TF) that emphasize or hide special features of volume data. Their potential to cleverly generate a color and opacity value for direct volume rendering is primarily determined by the used metrics besides the input data value. Despite this variety of TFs, for the most part simple one dimensional data value only based TFs are used in practice. This survey will therefore examine the differences in representative TF types (defined by their used metrics) to provide a basis for selecting the right TF type for the boundary conditions that describe an individual field of application and task. Besides fundamental properties like metrics or memory consumption, we will also give an assessment about user interaction and quality of feature emphasis.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:VG/VG10/077-083
,
booktitle = {IEEE/ EG Symposium on Volume Graphics
},
editor = {Ruediger Westermann and Gordon Kindlmann
},
title = {{A Survey of Transfer Functions Suitable for Volume Rendering
}},
author = {Arens, Stephan and 
Domik, Gitta
},
year = {2010
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-8376
},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-23-1
},
DOI = {10.2312/VG/VG10/077-083
}
}