This paper presents new methods for understanding specific building performance trends and their dependencies by parameterizing digital building models over multiple variables in order to create a high dimensional des...
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This paper presents new methods for understanding specific building performance trends and their dependencies by parameterizing digital building models over multiple variables in order to create a high dimensional design space that can be rapidly simulated, analyzed, and visualized. These methods allow for the potential delineation of multiple areas of the design space that are characterized by relatively high performance instead of a single optimum. The ability to identify clusters of high performance is particularly helpful to architectural design processes, which must take into consideration variables that cannot be parameterized and resist quantitative methods of optimization.
Although direct volume rendering is a powerful tool for \isualizing complex structures within volume data, the size and complexity of the parameter space controlling the rendering process makes generating an informati...
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Although direct volume rendering is a powerful tool for \isualizing complex structures within volume data, the size and complexity of the parameter space controlling the rendering process makes generating an informative rendering challenging. In particular, the specification of the transfer function - the mapping from data values to renderable optical properties-is frequently a time-consuming and unintuitive task. Ideally, the data being visualized should itself suggest an appropriate transfer function that brings out the features of interest without obscuring them with elements of little importance. We demonstrate that this is possible for a large class of scalar volume data, namely that where the regions of interest are the boundaries between different materials. A transfer function which makes boundaries readily visible can be generated from the relationship between three quantities: the data value and its first and second directional derivatives along the gradient direction. A data structure we term the histogram volume captures the relationship between these quantities throughout the volume in a position independent, computationally efficient fashion. We describe the theoretical importance of the quantities measured by the histogram volume, the implementation issues in its calculation, and a method for semiautomatic transfer function generation through its analysis. We conclude with results of the method on both idealized synthetic data as well as real world dataseis. Copyright 1998 IEEE.
In this paper we develop a computational model of visual adaptation for realistic image synthesis based on psychophysical experiments. The model captures the changes in threshold visibility, color appearance, visual a...
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A computergraphics algorithm for simulating the propagation of light and its interaction with matter on a massively parallel computer is presented. This algorithm, called the tagged shooting method, is designed for a...
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A computergraphics algorithm for simulating the propagation of light and its interaction with matter on a massively parallel computer is presented. This algorithm, called the tagged shooting method, is designed for a virtual machine containing a great number of simple communicating processors arrayed into a cubical three-dimensional lattice. Only nearest neighbor communication among processors is assumed, and there is no reliance on global shared memory. The algorithm is similar in spirit to the classical progressive refinement radiosity method designed for more conventional computers but is not an adaptation of that technique to massive parallelism. Instead, the new algorithm uses a discretization of the wave equation as a local rule for shuttling radiant energy values between processors that correspond to regions of space. A number of example images that were created with an implementation of the algorithm on a Connection Machine are depicted and critiqued.< >
The paper presents Act, an object oriented library for projects from specialized 3D graphics applications to simple interactive educational programs. Act meets the needs of both occasional and expert graphicsprogramm...
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The paper presents Act, an object oriented library for projects from specialized 3D graphics applications to simple interactive educational programs. Act meets the needs of both occasional and expert graphicsprogrammers, offering a high level access to the OpenGL library and additional features including object creation, manipulation, and interaction. An interpreted language allows the Act library to be extended easily and dynamically.
Although direct volume rendering is a powerful tool for visualizing complex structures within volume data, the size and complexity of the parameter space controlling the rendering process makes generating an informati...
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Although direct volume rendering is a powerful tool for visualizing complex structures within volume data, the size and complexity of the parameter space controlling the rendering process makes generating an informative rendering challenging. In particular, the specification of the transfer function-the mapping from data values to renderable optical properties-is frequently a time consuming and unintuitive task. Ideally, the data being visualized should itself suggest an appropriate transfer function that brings out the features of interest without obscuring them with elements of little importance. We demonstrate that this is possible for a large class of scalar volume data, namely that where the regions of interest are the boundaries between different materials. A transfer function which makes boundaries readily visible can be generated from the relationship between three quantities: the data value and its first and second directional derivatives along the gradient direction. A data structure we term the histogram volume captures the relationship between these quantities throughout the volume in a position independent, computationally efficient fashion. We describe the theoretical importance of the quantities measured by the histogram volume, the implementation issues in its calculation, and a method for semiautomatic transfer function generation through its analysis. We conclude with results of the method on both idealized synthetic data as well as real world datasets.
This paper presents a comparison among stress-intensity factors for mixed-mode two-dimensional problems obtained through three different approaches: displacement correlation, J-integral, and modified crack-closure int...
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Acceleration structures are key to high performance parallel ray tracing. Maximizing performance requires configuring the degrees of freedom (e.g., construction parameters) these data structures expose. Whether a para...
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We are developing a collaborative research environment, the Collaboratory for Microscopic Digital Anatomy (CMDA), to provide remote access to the sophisticated instrumentation located at the Na-tional Center for Micro...
We are developing a collaborative research environment, the Collaboratory for Microscopic Digital Anatomy (CMDA), to provide remote access to the sophisticated instrumentation located at the Na-tional Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR). The project’s initial focus is the col-lection and analysis of data from NCMIR’s unique intermediate-high voltage transmission electron microscope (HVEM), an instrument expressly designed to obtain images from thick specimens con-taining substantial 3-D structure. Because of the electron optical characteristics of the microscope, its images represent a 2-D projection of the specimen’s 3-D structure. 3-D data is derived, using axial tomography, from a series of projections acquired as the specimen is successively tilted in small angu-lar increments. Visualizing the 3-D volume data generated by this procedure is a key challenge facing the project. Our experience suggests that existing visualization mechanisms are limited in their ability to fully access the data’s biologically interesting information.
Vehicle operating policies are developed and a longitudinal controller is designed to satisfy the stringent performance criteria of an Automated Guideway Transit (AGT) System operating under model-reference control. T...
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