The parallelized perspective shear-warp algorithm for volume rendering

Parallel Computing

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 339-354

  Schulze, Jürgen P ^a   Lang, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Remote computing; Shear warp algorithm; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DISPLAY DEVICES; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

VOLUME RENDERING;

PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0037362973     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8191(02)00250-8     Document Type: Article

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