15-462 Lecture 21: Visualization

04/23/2002

15-462 Graphics I

2

Scientific Visualization

•Generally do not start with a 3D model

•Must deal with very large data sets

–MRI, e.g. 512 £ 512 £ 200 u 50MB points

–Visible Human 512 £ 512 £ 1734 u 433 MB points

•Visualize both real-world and simulation data

•User interaction

•Automatic search