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Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 18 No. 1, pp. 85-106


Hierarchical Feature-Based Volume Morphing


Hao-Ren Ke*, Yu-Pao Tsai*+ and Zen-Chun Shih*
Department of Computer and Information Science 
National Chiao Tung University 
Hsinchu, 300 Taiwan 
+Institute of Information Science 
Academia Sinica 
TungHai University 
Taipei, 115 Taiwan


    Morphing techniques have been applied to many fields to create astounding visual effects. In this paper, we present a hierarchical feature-based volume morphing algorithm, which leverages the idea of feature-element hierarchy to significantly improve morphing effects. A new type of feature element, the cylinder field, is also given to facilitate the task of feature specification and correspondence. Additionally, with a slight modification, the proposed algorithm can be applied to volume animation.


Keywords: feature-based volume morphing, feature-element hierarchy, cylinder fields, distance field interpolation (DFI), volume animation

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