This document describes some preliminary results of the application of direct volume visualization and realistic image synthesis techniques in Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) field. The final goal is to analyze the use volume data representation and direct volume visualization techniques respectively as basic geometric element and rendering method for numerical control (NC) process planning and simulation. In particular we want to study their application in the process of human organs replication by rapid prototyping techniques. Volume rendering techniques will be used to evaluate the geometric reconstruction of volumetric data (e.g. parts of human body extracted from a CT scan as the carotid arteries), in order to obtain the best polygonal approximation of a dataset. The polygonal model resulting from this evaluation stage will be used to drive its physical reconstruction via rapid prototyping. A volume rendering program, called VolCastIA, is presented. VolCastIA is a software environment built to evaluate the use of state of the art image synthesis methods in the volume rendering context.
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