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Title:
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GRIDPROBE: A SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIVELY VISUALIZING LARGE PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS |
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Author(s):
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Jim Ching-rong Lin , David Chien , Jeffrey Yarus |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-63-8 |
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Editors:
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Yingcai Xiao and Eleonore ten Thij |
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Year:
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2008 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Visualization Application, Geoscience Visualization, Reservoir Visualization, 3D interaction, Volume Visualization,
Irregular Grid Visualization |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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142 |
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Last Page:
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150 |
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Language:
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English |
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Cover:
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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For years, petroleum and reservoir engineers and geoscientists have routinely used 3D visualization software to study
petroleum reservoir models. 3D visualization allows petroleum geoscientists and engineers to get inside these models
to interrogate, investigate, and visualize the simulation effects on specific reservoir areas. Typical reservoir models are
large, three-dimensional, non-rectilinear, and complicated volumes, whereas traditional software relies on 2D menus to
define ranges of property values or geographic regions of interest and to identify and visualize key properties. The result
is a tedious, step-wise process of entering/selecting 2D commands from a window and waiting for a re-rendering of the
3D image. This process is inefficient, often confusing, and causes the geoscientist to lose focus. We believe that
intuitive 3D interaction and high performance volume visualization should be integrated to provide a human-in-theloop
reservoir visualization environment. This paper describes a probe-based method to provide interactive reservoir
visualization. Our results show that a single layer of reservoir volume can be manipulated at a rate of 13 frames per
second over a 20 million-cell grid. |
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