Category: Publications

Point cloud-based datasets have been critical to a number of research communities, including graphics, robotics, and CAD because in many ways, points better represent many data sources than triangulations. Visualizing points on remote devices remains somewhat problematic to this day. Very large datasets have the problem of needing to be transmitted, have any data structures built locally, and rendered on the local machine. This paper addresses the question of what’s the point in rendering billions of points, when the display only has 2 million pixels?

Point cloud computation for object slicing in 3-d printing William Oropallo, Les A. Piegl, Paul Rosen, and Khairan Rajab In CAD Conference

In this paper we describe the Myocardial Uncertainty Viewer (muView) system for exploring data stemming from the simulation of cardiac ischemia. The simulation uses a collection of conductivity values to understand how ischemic regions effect the undamaged anisotropic heart tissue. The data resulting from the simulation is multi-valued and volumetric, and thus, for every data point, we have a collection of samples describing cardiac electrical properties. View combines a suite of visual analysis methods to explore the area surrounding the ischemic zone and identify how perturbations of variables change the propagation of their effects.

This work introduces the first framework to directly cancel pairs or groups of 3D critical points in a hierarchical manner with guaranteed minimum amount of perturbation based on their robustness, a quantitative measure of their stability. In addition, our framework does not require the extraction of the entire 3D topology, which contains nontrivial separation structure, and thus is computationally effective. Furthermore, our algorithm can remove critical points in any subregions of the domain whose degree is zero and handle complex boundary configurations, making it capable of addressing challenging scenarios that may not be resolved otherwise.

We introduce Klareco, a visualization architecture that foregoes the ETL process allowing quick access to multiple data sources. The architecture uses an indexing engine for accessing data with multiple schema, microservices to analyze data, and visualizations to explore the data.