Fast and reliable space leaping for interactive volume rendering

Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 195-202

  Wan, Ming ^a   Sadiq, Aamir ^b   Kaufman, Arie ^b  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ray casting optimization; Space leaping; Virtual navigation; Volume visualization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTIMIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

VOLUME RENDERING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0036452290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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