Multiresolution view-dependent splat based volume rendering of large irregular data

Proceedings - IEEE 2001 Symposium on Parallel and Large-Data Visualization and Graphics

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 93-99

  Meredith, J ^a   Ma, Kwan Liu ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Hardware assisted rendering; irregular grid data; lighting; multiresolution representation; splatting; volume rendering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012232730     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVGS.2001.964409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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