Volume clipping via per-fragment operations in texture-based volume visualization

Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 93-100

  Weiskopf, Daniel ^a   Engel, Klaus ^a   Ertl, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clipping; Hardware acceleration; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; TEXTURES; VISUALIZATION;

VOLUME CLIPPING;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036448551     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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