Illustrating Surfaces in Volume
Xiaoru Yuan, Baoquan Chen.
VisSym'04 Joint IEEE/EG Symposium on Visualization, Konstanz, Germany, May 19-21,
2004. [BibTeX]
INSPIRE: An Interactive Image Assisted Non-Photorealistic Rendering System
Minh X. Nguyen, Hui Xu, Xiaoru Yuan, Baoquan Chen.
11th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (PG'03), pp. 472, Canmore, Canada, October 08 - 10,
2003. [BibTeX]
Interactive Silhouette Rendering for Point-Based Models
Hui Xu, Minh X. Nguyen, Xiaoru Yuan, Baoquan Chen.
Proceedings of Symposium On Point Based Graphics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, June 2-4,
2004. [BibTeX]
Procedural Image Processing for Non-photorealistic Rendering and Visualization
Xiaoru Yuan.
Presentation Slides, November 11,
2004. [BibTeX]
Procedural Image Processing for Visualization
Author(s): Xiaoru Yuan, Baoquan Chen.
Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2nd International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC). Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Nov 6-8), Vol. 4291, pp. 50--59, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg,
2006.
[BibTeX] [DOI]
Abstract:
We present a novel Procedural Image Processing (PIP) method and demonstrate its applications in visualization. PIP modulates the sampling positions of a conventional image processing kernel (e.g. edge detection filter) through a procedural perturbation function. When properly designed, PIP can produce a variety of styles for edge depiction, varying on width, solidity, and pattern, etc. In addition to producing artistic stylization, in this paper we demonstrate that PIP can be employed to achieve various visualization tasks, such as contour enhancement, focus+context visualization, importance driven visualization and uncertainty visualization.
PIP produces unique effects that often either cannot be easily achieved through conventional filters or would require multiple pass filtering. PIP perturbation functions are either defined by analytical expressions or encoded in pre-generated images. We leverage the programmable fragment shader of the current graphics hardware for achieving the operations in real-time.
Stippling and Silhouettes Rendering in Geometry-Image Space
Xiaoru Yuan, Minh X. Nguyen, Nan Zhang, Baoquan Chen.
Proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR'05), pp. 193--200, Konstanz, Germany, June 29 - July 1,
2005. [BibTeX]