An interleaved parallel volume renderer with PC-clusters

Eurographics Workshop on Parallel Graphics and Visualization

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 51-59

  Garcia, Antonio ^a   Shen, Han Wei ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

PARALLEL VOLUME RENDERING;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036985339     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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