Direct haptic rendering for large data sets with high gradients

Bob Ménélas; Nicolas Fauvet; Mehdi Ammi; Patrick Bourdot

1st International ICST Workshop on Haptic in Ambient Systems

Research Article

Direct haptic rendering for large data sets with high gradients

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.AMBISYS2008.2860,
    author={Bob M\^{e}n\^{e}las and Nicolas Fauvet and Mehdi Ammi and Patrick Bourdot},
    title={Direct haptic rendering for large data sets with high gradients},
    proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Haptic in Ambient Systems},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={HAS},
    year={2010},
    month={5},
    keywords={Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Haptic Volumic Rendering High Spatial Frequency Isosurface Large Data set},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.AMBISYS2008.2860}
}

Bob Ménélas
Nicolas Fauvet
Mehdi Ammi
Patrick Bourdot
Year: 2010
Direct haptic rendering for large data sets with high gradients
HAS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.AMBISYS2008.2860

Bob Ménélas¹^,*, Nicolas Fauvet¹^,*, Mehdi Ammi¹^,*, Patrick Bourdot¹^,*

1: CNRS-LIMSI, University of Paris-Sud XI BP 133, 91403 Orsay France

*Contact email: bob.menelas@limsi.fr, nicolas.fauvet@limsi.fr, mehdi.ammi@limsi.fr, patrick.bourdot@limsi.fr

Abstract

This paper addresses haptic rendering for large data sets resulting from CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) applications. We present a new haptic interaction technique for volume rendering of isosurfaces. This method is based on an existing process [1]. This contribution makes it possible to take into account 3D regions presenting high frequency data. In addition, with this technique we can explore and understand complex data fields without having any intermediate geometrical representation (such as the polyhedral mesh provided by Marching Cubes [14]), thus having a very fast haptic rendering loop. Lastly, we led several psychophysical studies to assess the interest of this method for isosurface haptization.

Keywords: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Haptic Volumic Rendering High Spatial Frequency Isosurface Large Data set

Published: 2010-05-16
Publisher: ACM
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.AMBISYS2008.2860