Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE symposium on Volume visualization and graphics

We are pleased to welcome you to the 2002 Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics in Boston, Massachusetts. The current event marks the seventh installment of the symposium since the 1989 Workshop at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The VolVis Symposium has been held biannually in conjunction with the IEEE Visualization Conference since 1990. The VolVis Symposium is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Graphics in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH and represents one of the leading meeting forums in the domains of volume rendering, volume modeling, and vol-ume visualization. The VolVis Symposium proceedings have emerged as a major publication of state-of-the-art volume visual-ization research. We are please that, for the first time in the history of the VolVis Symposium, this year's proceedings have been printed in full-color on high-quality paper.Keynote EventThis year's keynote speaker is Ken Perlin, Professor of Computer Science at New York University and Director of the New York University Media Research Laboratory and Center for Advanced Technology. An abstract of his presentation "Procedurally Generated Volumes" appears in these proceedings.PapersOur call for papers yielded 36 high quality paper submissions. These were reviewed by a field of expert reviewers, composed of the Program Committee and a number of external domain experts. We wish to thank all the reviewers for their critical paper evaluations and their many suggestions for improvements. Their dedicated assistance was instrumental in the hard task to select the 16 top papers you find in these proceedings. These papers span a wide gamut of volume visualization research, such as the rendering of unstructured and structured grids as well as time-varying volumes, texture-mapping hardware accelerated rendering, rendering with haptic feedback, and volume reconstruction and triangulation.DVD ProceedingsThe proceedings this year are accompanied by a DVD-ROM that contains electronic versions of the papers as well as submitted animations.