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This paper presents an automatic error tolerance specification system to control the performance of hierarchical volume rendering. Rather than requiring the user to provide an explicit error tolerance numerically, we let the user to specify only the target rendering speed. Our system can then calculate an appropriate error tolerance adaptively to satisfy the user’s performance goal. The system is realized using fuzzy logic control, which enables run-time adaptation based on iterative feedback control and knowledge acquired from past experience. We describe the process of constructing the fuzzy logic control system, and show that the system can successfully steer the performance of volume rendering.
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Li, X., Shen, HW. (2001). Adaptive Volume Rendering using Fuzzy Logic Control. In: Ebert, D.S., Favre, J.M., Peikert, R. (eds) Data Visualization 2001. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6215-6_27
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