Encoding Volumetric Grids For Streaming Isosurface Extraction
Ajith Mascarenhas, Martin Isenburg, Valerio Pascucci, Jack Snoeyink · 2004
Gridded volumetric data sets representing simulation or tomography output are commonly visualized by displaying a triangulated isosurface for a particular isovalue. When the grid is stored in a standard format, the entire volume must be loaded from disk, even though only a fraction of the grid cells may intersect the isosurface.