High-quality unstructured volume rendering on the PC platform

Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 119-125

  Guthe, Stefan ^a   Roettger, Stefan ^b   Schieber, Andreas ^b   Strasser, Wolfgang ^a   Ertl, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell projection; Graphics hardware; Texture mapping; Unstructured meshes; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; COLOR; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPACITY; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CELL PROJECTION; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; PROJECTED TETRAHEDRA ALGORITHM; TEXTURE MAPPING; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES; VOLUME RENDERING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0036949449     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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