Rendering Molecular Surfaces using Order-Independent Transparency

Kauker, Daniel; Krone, Michael; Panagiotidis, Alexandros; Reina, Guido; Ertl, Thomas

Rendering Molecular Surfaces using Order-Independent Transparency

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2013

Authors

Kauker, Daniel
Krone, Michael
Panagiotidis, Alexandros
Reina, Guido
Ertl, Thomas

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

In this paper we present a technique for interactively rendering transparent molecular surfaces. We use Puxels, our implementation of per-pixel linked lists for order-independent transparency rendering. Furthermore, we evaluate the usage of per-pixel arrays as an alternative for this rendering technique. We describe our real-time rendering technique for transparent depiction of complex molecular surfaces like the Solvent Excluded Surface which is based on constructive solid geometry. Additionally, we explain further graphical operations and extensions possible with the Puxels approach. The evaluation benchmarks the performance of the presented methods and compares it to other methods.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:EGPGV/EGPGV13/033-040
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
},
editor = {Fabio Marton and Kenneth Moreland
},
title = {{Rendering Molecular Surfaces using Order-Independent Transparency
}},
author = {Kauker, Daniel and 
Krone, Michael and 
Panagiotidis, Alexandros and 
Reina, Guido and 
Ertl, Thomas
},
year = {2013
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-348X
},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-45-3
},
DOI = {10.2312/EGPGV/EGPGV13/033-040
}
}