Compression domain volume rendering for distributed environments

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages

  Lippert, L ^a   Gross, M H ^a   Kurmann, C ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Distributed applications; Multiresolution; Networks; Progressive compression; Splatting; Volume rendering; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); IMAGE QUALITY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CLIENT SERVER; VOLUME COMPRESSION METHOD; VOLUME RENDERING METHOD;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 0031552913     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8659.00146     Document Type: Article

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