3DIVE: AN IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR INTERACTIVE VOLUME DATA EXPLORATION
Résumé
This paper describes an immersive system, called 3DIVE, for interactive volume data visualization
and exploration inside the CAVE virtual environment. Combining interactive volume rendering and
virtual reality provides a natural immersive environment for volumetric data visualization. More
advanced data exploration operations, such as object level data manipulation, simulation and analysis, are
supported in 3DIVE by several new techniques: volume primitives and texture regions are used for the
rendering, manipulation, and collision detection of volumetric objects; the region based rendering pipeline
is integrated with 3D image filters to provide an image-based mechanism for interactive transfer function
design; a collaborative visualization module allows remote sites to collaborate over common datasets with
passive or active view sharing. The system has been recently released as public domain software for
CAVE/ImmersaDesk users, and is currently being actively used by a 3D microscopy visualization project.