简介:Thispaperdescribesanimmersivesystem,called3DIVE,forinteractivevolumedatavisualizationandexplorationinsidetheCAVEvirtualenvironment.Combininginteractivevolumerenderingandvirtualrealityprovidesanaturalimmersiveenvironmentforvolumetricdatavisualization.Moreadvanceddataexplorationoperations,suchasobjectleveldatamanipulation,simulationandanalysis,aresupportedin3DIVEbyseveralnewtechniques.Inparticular,volumeprimitivesandtextureregionsareusedfortherendering,manipulation,andcollisiondetectionofvolumetricobjects;andtheregion-basedrenderingpipelineisintegratedwith3Dimagefilterstoprovideanimage-basedmechanismforinteractivetransferfunctiondesign.ThesystemhasbeenrecentlyreleasedaspublicdomainsoftwareforCAVE/ImmersaDeskusers,andiscurrentlybeingactivelyusedbyvariousscientificandbiomedicalvisualizationprojects.