Accelerated volume ray-casting using texture mapping

Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 271-277

  Westermann, R ^a   Sevenich, B ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Graphics Hardware; Ray Casting; Texture Mapping; Visualization; Volume Rendering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DATA STRUCTURES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; RAY TRACING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEXTURES;

TEXTURE MAPPING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0035175524     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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