ImageVis3D is a volume rendering application specifically designed to
render large data sets. This is achieved by splitting the data set into
multiple levels of detail (LoD), with each level itself decomposed into
multiple bricks (atomic rendering primitives). Interaction occurs at
the coarsest LoD, which can be rendered instantaneously on almost all
modern systems. After a configurable delay, ImageVis3D will successively
render finer levels of detail, until the data are visible at their
native resolution. Volume rendering, as the name implies, is a technique
for rendering scalar volumes of data. The rendering method allows one
to see "inside" a data set, allowing the user to understand the inner
three-dimensional structure of the data.
