Mehmet Oguz Derin
ABSTRACT
We present a compressed volumetric data structure and traversal algorithm that interactively visualizes complete terabyte-scale scientific data. Previous methods rely on heavy approximation and do not provide individual sample-level representation when going beyond gigabytes. We develop an extensible pipeline that makes the data streamable on GPU using compact pointers and a compression algorithm based on wavelet transform. The resulting approach renders high-resolution captures under varying sampling characteristics in real-time.
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