Modelling and rendering graphics scenes composed of multiple volumetric datasets

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 159-172

  Leu, Adrian ^a   Chen, Min ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTI-ALIASING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DATA STRUCTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

MULTIPLE-VOLUME SCENE REPRESENTATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0032646637     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8659.00366     Document Type: Article

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