Jupiter: a toolkit for interactive large model visualization
Dirk Bartz, Dirk Staneker, Wolfgang Straßer, Brian Cripe, Tom Gaskins, Kristann Orton, Michael Carter, Andreas Johannsen, Jeff Trom · 2001
The fast increasing size of datasets in scientific computing, mechanical engineering, or virtual medicine is quickly exceeding the graphics capabilities of modern computers. Toolkits for the large model visualization address this problem by combining efficient geometric techniques, such as occlusion and visibility culling, mesh reduction, and efficient rendering. In this paper, we introduce Jupiter, a toolkit for the interactive visualization of large models which exploits the above mentioned techniques. Jupiter was originally developed by Hewlett-Packard and EAI, and it was recently equipped with new functionality by the University of Tübingen, as being part of the Kelvin project. Earlier this year, an initial version of Jupiter was also released as open source.