HELP! * GREY=local LOCAL HTML version of Foils prepared 18 March 1996

Foil 25 A4 - Relevant Technologies -- Continued

From Collaborative and Interactive Visualization Project Second Quaterly Review Review Meeting at NPAC -- 18 March 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

ILLUSTRA DATABASE - object-relational DBMS
  • Query language based on extensions to SQL
  • Object extensions - DataBlades (consists of data types, functions, rules and tables)
  • 2D/3D Spatial DataBlades
Algorithms
  • Ray tracing techniques based on light-model equations for absorption, reflection, emission and scatter (optical effects such as shadowing, shading, transparency
  • Radiosity uses heat-source models for ray scans
  • Many algorithms developed to improve time required to volume render images
  • Segmentation for identification of organs (automatic, semi-manual) - uniform B-splines, Bezier functions, edge detection, pattern classification



Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

If you have any comments about this server, send e-mail to webmaster@npac.syr.edu.

Page produced by wwwfoil on Tue Feb 18 1997