Visible Orbit Remote 3D Visualisation
Theme: Medical Visualisation
People: Jeroen Verschuur, Charl P. Botha, Frits H. Post, Sander Schutte, Huib Simonsz
Description
The Visible Orbit Project has almost 50 GBytes of extremely high-resolution (thousands by thousands of pixels, a few hundred slices per dataset) digitised histological sections of human eyes, foetuses and embryos. In a previous project, this data was reconstructed into 3D volumes. A consortium consisting of the AMC, KNAW and TU Delft wants to make this data available on the internet. For this purpose, the TU Delft has generously supplied a dedicated SUN Opteron server in the central hosting facility with practically unlimited bandwidth.
This M.Sc. project concerns the research and development of techniques for the remote 3D visualisation of this data. The student will have to architect a client/server system that will enable multiple simultaneous users to visualise interactively and in 3D the data that is stored on the server. The following scientific challenges are foreseen:
- Creating and implementing interactive 3D visualisation techniques with which the large volume datasets can be remotely visualised in 3D, e.g. remote direct volume rendering, level of detail surface extraction and rendering, remote multi-planar reconstruction
- Developing and evaluating intelligent IO and processor scheduling strategies so that multiple simultaneous remote visualisation sessions can be handled efficiently.
- Architecting the client/server software framework that will be used to visualise the 3D orbita data.
Below is a conventional local volume rendering of one of the datasets:
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