Visualization enhancement by embedding local and global modeling operations in the rendering process

The recent great increase in the availability of powerful computer systems withlarge memories and storage devices led the way to using memory expensive modalities.Volume graphics is one of these modalities. It requires large amounts of memory formaintaining, and powerful computers to manipulate. Since volume data sets span a threedimensional space, a resolution increase of a volume by some factor n forces storageincrease by a factor of n3. Medical applications and scientific...