USING POINT BASED TECHNIQUES FOR SEISMIC HORIZONS VISUALIZATION / USO DE TÉCNICAS BASEADAS EM PONTOS PARA VISUALIZAÇÃO DE HORIZONTES SÍSMICOS

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

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Seismic horizon visualization stands as an important knowledge area used to support exploration on the oil industry. Different techniques currently employed to render this kind of surfaces are usually based on polygonal meshes generation, which benefits from graphics boards optimization on drawing triangles. This work is an evaluation of Point Based rendering techniques to replace polygonal approaches in seismic horizons visualization. To do so, this study revisits each stage of the seismic visualization process. The algorithm adopted here is based on the Surface Splatting with the EWA filter. This work also presents a study on normal evaluation and data structures to store points and normal. Special care is taken in shading techniques. The implementation yielded results that are used to support the evaluation of the Point Based Techniques on real 3D Seismic data. Traditional triangle based rendering is also presented to compare results.

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seismic horizons visualizacao cientifica horizontes sismicos scientific visualization

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