Hierarchical Splatting of Scattered Data

Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 433-440

  Hopf, Matthias ^a   Ertl, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hierarchical Visualization; Scattered Data; Splatting; Volume Rendering

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

ALGORITHMS; ASTRONOMY; IMAGE QUALITY; VISUALIZATION;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 0242592225     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VISUAL.2003.1250404     Document Type: Conference Paper

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