Hierarchical Visualization of Large-scale Unstructured Hexahedral Volume Data
Jaya Sreevalsan‐Nair, Lars Linsen, Benjamin A. Ahlborn, Michael Stuart Green, Bernd Hamann · 2003
Multi-block unstructured hexahedral grids are widely used in numerical simulations, but they cause various problems for data visualization due to the hangingnode problem. We present a multi-resolution approach for unstructured hexahedral grid visualization based on cost-minimizing face collapses. We resolve the hangingnode problem in its general form in order to generate visualizations using cutting planes and isosurface extraction. We alleviate the problems due to discontinuities on cell boundaries by using local interpolation schemes and dual contouring approaches in cutting-plane visualization and isosurface extraction, respectively.