APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A VISUAL NAVIGATION INTERFACE

An apparatus provides a visualized navigation interface by real-time volume rendering volume data. In addition, the apparatus visualizes internal information of a large-scale 3-dimensional volume data which are widely used in various fields such as medical images, computer graphics, virtual reality and scientific data visualization. Thereafter, the interaction with a user is possible through the real-time volume rendering and visual navigation interface for the large amount of volume data that the conventional volume rendering apparatus cannot process. Further, the present invention can provide excellent images providing surface and internal information of an object through the real-time interaction with the user. Finally, since the real-time volume rendering apparatus in accordance with the present invention can generate the image capable of being used in external output devices such as a stereo display device and a head mount device, the present invention can obtain more realistic internal information of the volume data so that it is possible to perform an advanced diagnosis and prediction for medical, weather and geological data.