Memory‐Efficient GPU Volume Path Tracing of AMR Data Using the Dual Mesh

S Zellmann, Q Wu, KL Ma, I Wald - Computer Graphics Forum, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A common way to render cell‐centric adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) data is to compute
the dual mesh and visualize that with a standard unstructured element renderer. While the …

Visualization of Large Non-Trivially Partitioned Unstructured Data with Native Distribution on High-Performance Computing Systems

A Sahistan, S Demirci, I Wald… - … on Visualization and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Interactively visualizing large finite element simulation data on High-Performance
Computing (HPC) systems poses several difficulties. Some of these relate to unstructured …

Quick clusters: A GPU-parallel partitioning for efficient path tracing of unstructured volumetric grids

N Morrical, A Sahistan, U Güdükbay… - … on Visualization and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a simple yet effective method for clustering finite elements to improve
preprocessing times and rendering performance of unstructured volumetric grids without …

MFA-DVR: direct volume rendering of MFA models

J Sun, D Lenz, H Yu, T Peterka - Journal of Visualization, 2024 - Springer
Abstract 3D volume rendering is widely used to reveal insightful intrinsic patterns of
volumetric datasets across many domains. However, the complex structures and varying …

A task-parallel approach for localized topological data structures

G Liu, F Iuricich - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unstructured meshes are characterized by data points irregularly distributed in the Euclidian
space. Due to the irregular nature of these data, computing connectivity information between …

State‐of‐the‐art in Large‐Scale Volume Visualization Beyond Structured Data

J Sarton, S Zellmann, S Demirci… - Computer Graphics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Volume data these days is usually massive in terms of its topology, multiple fields, or
temporal component. With the gap between compute and memory performance widening …

GPU-based data-parallel rendering of large, unstructured, and non-convexly partitioned data

A Sahistan, S Demirci, I Wald, S Zellmann… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Computational fluid dynamic simulations often produce large clusters of finite elements with
non-trivial, non-convex boundaries and uneven distributions among compute nodes, posing …

Hybrid image-/data-parallel rendering using island parallelism

S Zellmann, I Wald, J Barbosa… - 2022 IEEE 12th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In parallel ray tracing, techniques fall into one of two camps: image-parallel techniques aim
at increasing frame rate by replicating scene data across nodes and splitting the rendering …

Compact tetrahedralization-based acceleration structures for ray tracing

A Aman, S Demirci, U Güdükbay - Journal of Visualization, 2022 - Springer
We propose compact and efficient tetrahedral mesh representations to improve the ray-
tracing performance. We reorder tetrahedral mesh data using a space-filling curve to …

Shortest Path to Boundary for Self-Intersecting Meshes

H Chen, E Diaz, C Yuksel - ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2023 - dl.acm.org
We introduce a method for efficiently computing the exact shortest path to the boundary of a
mesh from a given internal point in the presence of self-intersections. We provide a formal …