Klaus Engel

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I am a PhD. student in the
Visualization & Interactive Systems Group


at the
Faculty of Computer Science
University of Stuttgart

financed in the ChemVis project

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for funny translations of this page try babelfish ,e.g. german
 
The ChemVis project is one of 23 research  projects in the strategic research initiative "V3D2"  ("Distributed Processing and Exchange of Digital Documents") of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche  Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG).

Recent work:

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28-May-2002:
Info		 This is the last update on this site!
Since 2003, i am working for the Imaging & Visualization department at Siemens Corporate Research, Inc. in Princeton, NJ USA.
To get my new email address contact me here: engel@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
CU
04-Dec-2002:
Site		 OpenQVis released on Sourceforge!
OpenQVis is a GPL project for the visualization of 3D volume data on rectilinear grids, as they arise from tomographic measurement and simulation in computational science and engineering. It uses QT and OpenInventor/Coin3D to achieve cross-platform compability. OpenQVis is available for Linux, Windows 98/ME, Windows NT/2000/XP and SGI IRIX. It has been successfully compiled on HPUX. I am currently working on a MacOSX 10.2 build.
09-Sep-2002:
Slides		 The powerpoint slides from the Eurographics state-of-the-art-report (STAR) S2 Interactive High-Quality Volume Graphics with Flexible Consumer Graphics Hardware are now available for download (21MB)

You can also download my slides from the full-day-tutorial T4 Programmable Graphics Hardware for Interactive Visualization (11.5MB).
07-Jul-2002:
Publication		 My PhD. thesis (Dissertation) is now available for download:
Strategien und Algorithmen zur interaktiven Volumenvisualisierung in Digitalen Dokumenten (PDF, 8.6 MB)
17-Aug-2002:
Publication		 The EG2002 STAR (state-of-the-art-report) is now available for download:
Interactive High-Quality Volume Rendering with Flexible Consumer Graphics Hardware (PDF, 8.2 MB)
corrected version !!!
06-Jun-2002:
Animations		 Two new animation of convection flow in the earth's crust.

Animation1: 174 KB, MPG
Animation1: 2,1 MB, Cinepak
Animation1: 1,2 MB, Divx
Animation2: 678 KB, MPG
Animation2: 4,3 MB, Cinepak
Animation2: 788 KB, Divx
31-May-2002:
Gallery		 Here is a gallery of my PhD. graduation, which finally happend on May 31st ...
07-May-2002:
Gallery		 Added some new unsorted images to this gallery ...

Image: Shaded pre-integrated volume rendering of a carp.
11-Apr-2002:
Research
Interactive volume visualization on a Compaq Ipaq ?

Yes, it works !!!

Watch out for the paper at VisSym '02
by Simon Stegmaier, Marcelo Magallon and Thomas Ertl
"A Generic Solution for Hardware-Accelerated remote Visualization"
11-Apr-2002:
Course
There will be a Eurographics 2002 STAR (state-of-the-art report) 
"Interactive High-Quality Volume Rendering with Flexible Consumer Graphics Hardware" 
STAR homepage at
http://wwwvis.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/~engel/eg2002_star/.
07-Feb-2002:
Course		 image courtesy of JMK
There will be a Siggraph 2002 course on 
"High-Quality Volume Graphics on Consumer PC Hardware"
held by
Joe Michael Kniss
Scientific Computing and Imaging, 
School of Computing University of Utah
Christof Rezk-Salama
Computer Graphics Group, 
Computer Science Department,
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg,
Markus Hadwiger
VRVis Research Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization,
Vienna
and
me
Siggraph course page at
http://www.siggraph.org/s2002/conference/courses/crs42.html
Course homepage at
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~jmk/sigg_crs_02/courses_0067.html.
11-Nov-2001:
Software		 Updated Pre-Integrated Volume Renderer to Version 2.1. The renderer now also supports ATi's Radeon8500 graphics card by employing the fragment shader OpenGL extension. On GeForce3-based cards the texture shader and register combiner extensions are used.
Download the new version from the Pre-Integrated Volume Renderer Homepage.
09-Nov-2001:
Presentation		 A new talk with the title "Using Flexible Rasterization Hardware for Interactive High-Quality Volume Rendering" is now online. The talk was given on 8th of November on the Graphiktag 2001 in Tuebingen. Download the talk via this link (Powerpoint Slides 13.6 MB).
Optional Movie Files:
bob.mpg
fireball.avi
CT_Innenohr.mpg
28-Aug-2001:
Presentation		 Our paper "High-Quality Pre-Integrated Volume Rendering Using Hardware-Accelerated Pixel Shading" has won the "best paper award" on the Siggraph/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware 2001. The talk is now available for download here.
10-May-2001:
Research		 We have developed a novel texture-based volume rendering approach that achieves the image quality of the best post-shading approaches with far less slices, called Pre-Integrated Volume Rendering. Find details here.
19-Dec-2000:
Gallery		 A small gallery of our Chicago visit is now online. It shows Bernd Tomandl, Freja, me and several other strange persons on RSNA2000 and our following vacation trip through the middle west.
13-Dec-2000:
Publication		 K.Engel, F.Oellien, W.D.Ihlenfeldt, T.Ertl 
Client-Server-Strategien zur Visualisierung komplexer Struktureigenschaften in digitalen Dokumenten der Chemie (PDF)
IT+TI 6/2000 Informationstechnik und Technische Informatik 
pages 17-23
12-Dec-2000:
Photo		 Dr. Bernd Tomandl and me at booth #9305 on RSNA 2000 in Chicago. We showed high-quality direct volume rendering on low-cost desktop PCs using remote visualization and local GForce-based rendering. The remote rendering was done using a SGI Octane MXE located in Stuttgart/Germany.
16-Nov-2000:
Data		 This time-dependent data is a numerical simulation of convection flow in the earth's crust. Data courtesy of Dr. Joerg Schmalzl, Institute of Geophysics, Muenster University. 

- Download (14,6 MB)and unzip into the multi-texture demo directory. 
- Then run shell script runme_bob.sh (Linux) or runme_bob.bat (Windows)
- Press "Play" button
Warning: requires a lot of main memory (at least 256 MB recommended)
Hint: Try Isosurface mode for nice effects.
16-Nov-2000:
Poster		 We'll be giving a talk and exhibition on this years RSNA conference in Chicago (26. Nov. 2000 - 01 Dec. 2000). These are the posters that we show at the exhibition at space no. 9305. We will also give live demos on remote and GForce-based volume visualization.
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16-Nov-2000:

OpenGL Demo

 New versions of NVidia multitexture demo for Linux and Win95/98/ME/NT/2000:
System Requirements: NVidia GForce 256, GTS, MX, ULTRA Graphics Adapter
Version 1.5 for Win9x/ME/NT/2000
Version 1.5 for Linux/XFree4.x/0.9.x drivers
included: world famous CT teddy scan.
for additional data sets see below ...

Version 1.5:
- Added support for USHORT and FLOAT datasets
- Added translation mode using middle mouse button
- Changed perspective

Additional data sets:
Bonsai scan with contrast dye (dl 3.9 MB)
  human head CT scan, small (dl 200 KB)
  human head CT scan large (dl 1.4 MB)
  Engine block (dl 3.1 MB)
Human Head MR scan (dl 13.5 MB)
  Human Head MR scan, small (dl 7.3 MB)
  Teddy bear (dl 635 KB)
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