Approaches that exploit vector-parallelism for three rendering and volume visualization techniques

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 755-774

  Newman, Timothy S ^a   Tang, Ning ^a  

^a N300 Technology Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-ALIASING; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

PARALLEL RENDERING; SURFACE RAY TRACING; VOLUME RAY CASTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0034291563     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0097-8493(00)00077-7     Document Type: Article

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