GPU surface extraction using the closest point embedding

Mark Kim; Charles Hansen

doi:10.1117/12.2076618

8 February 2015 GPU surface extraction using the closest point embedding

Mark Kim, Charles Hansen

Proceedings Volume 9397, Visualization and Data Analysis 2015; 93970B (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2076618
Event: SPIE/IS&T Electronic Imaging, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Isosurface extraction is a fundamental technique used for both surface reconstruction and mesh generation. One method to extract well-formed isosurfaces is a particle system; unfortunately, particle systems can be slow. In this paper, we introduce an enhanced parallel particle system that uses the closest point embedding as the surface representation to speedup the particle system for isosurface extraction. The closest point embedding is used in the Closest Point Method (CPM), a technique that uses a standard three dimensional numerical PDE solver on two dimensional embedded surfaces. To fully take advantage of the closest point embedding, it is coupled with a Barnes-Hut tree code on the GPU. This new technique produces well-formed, conformal unstructured triangular and tetrahedral meshes from labeled multi-material volume datasets. Further, this new parallel implementation of the particle system is faster than any known methods for conformal multi-material mesh extraction. The resulting speed-ups gained in this implementation can reduce the time from labeled data to mesh from hours to minutes and benefits users, such as bioengineers, who employ triangular and tetrahedral meshes

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Mark Kim and Charles Hansen "GPU surface extraction using the closest point embedding", Proc. SPIE 9397, Visualization and Data Analysis 2015, 93970B (8 February 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2076618

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