Accelerating techniques in volume rendering of irregular data

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 289-295

  Wang, Wen Cheng ^a   Zhou, Ding Hong ^a   Wu, En Hua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTIMIZATION;

DATA VOLUME RENDERING; PROJECTION METHOD; RAYCASTING METHOD;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0031141683     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0097-8493(97)00005-8     Document Type: Article

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