Date of Award
Fall 2010
Project Type
Thesis
Program or Major
Computer Science
Degree Name
Master of Science
First Advisor
R Daniel Bergeron
Abstract
The process of making observations and drawing conclusions from large data sets is an essential part of modern scientific research. However, the size of these data sets can easily exceed the available resources of a typical workstation, making visualization and analysis a formidable challenge. Many solutions, including multiresolution and adaptive resolution representations, have been proposed and implemented to address these problems.
This thesis describes an error model for calculating and representing localized error from data reduction and a process for constructing error-driven adaptive resolutions from this data, allowing fully-renderable error driven adaptive resolutions to be constructed from a single, high-resolution data set. We evaluated the performance of these adaptive resolutions generated with various parameters compared to the original data set. We found that adaptive resolutions generated with reasonable subdomain sizes and error tolerances show improved performance daring visualization.
Recommended Citation
Vohr, Samuel H., "Error-driven adaptive resolutions for large scientific data sets" (2010). Master's Theses and Capstones. 594.
https://scholars.unh.edu/thesis/594