Hexahedron Projection for Curvilinear Grids

Nelson Max
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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Abstract

This paper presents a method of dividing into triangle fans the most common projections of hexahedra from curvilinear meshes, so that they can be volume rendered in hardware, with a fragment program for 32-bit floating-point compositing. Source code is available online.

Author Information

Nelson Max, Mail Stop L-500, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA 94550 max2@llnl.gov

Source Code

hexahedron.zip

The necessary header files are included, but not the rest of the volume rendering system needed to use the algorithm.

BibTeX Entry

@article{Max07,
  author = "Nelson Max",
  title = "Hexahedron Projection for Curvilinear Grids",
  journal = "journal of graphics tools",
  volume = "12",
  number = "2",
  pages = "33-45",
  year = "2007",
}