4. State of the Art in Massive Model Visualization

Sunday
Full-Day, 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
Level: Intermediate
Room 9

Users consistently try to interactively display more data than computing systems allow. Massive 3D models occur in film, games, CAD product design, medical imaging, seismic exploration, information spaces, etc. and routinely cause problems. This course covers techniques that effectively overcome system constraints to allow real-time interaction with massive models.

Prerequisites

General knowledge of the difference between ray tracing and rasterization. Familiarity with computing-system architecture, display list concepts, graphics hardware accelerators, and parallel processing.

Intended Audience

Users of complex models and practitioners who build real-time 3D applications. The techniques apply to any community that commonly reduces model detail (for example, games) or works only with model chunks (for example, CAD). The course contrasts the strategies required for real time in a limited computing environment.

Organizer

David J. Kasik
The Boeing Company
david.j.kasik (at) boeing.com

Lecturers

Beat Brüderlin
Technische Universität Ilmenau and 3DInteractive GmbH

Wagner Correa
IBM Corporation

Andreas Dietrich
Universität des Saarlandes and inTrace GmbH

Enrico Gobbetti
CRS4

Dinesh Manocha
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Fabio Marton
CRS4

Inigo Quilez
VRContext

Philipp Slusallek
Universität des Saarlandes and inTrace GmbH

Abe Stephens
University of Utah

Sung-Eui Yoon
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories