Architectures for real-time volume rendering

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-9

  Pfister, Hanspeter ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer graphics; Graphics processors; Hardware architecture; Special purpose and application level systems; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTI-ALIASING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

TEXTURE MAPPING; VOLUME RENDERING;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0032679174     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-739X(98)00051-X     Document Type: Article

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