Hardware-Based Ray Casting for Tetrahedral Meshes

Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 333-340

  Weiler, Manfred ^a   Kraus, Martin ^a   Merz, Markus ^a   Ertl, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell projection; Pixel shading; Pre integrated volume rendering; Programmable graphics hardware; Ray casting; Tetrahedral meshes; Unstructured meshes; Volume visualization

Indexed keywords

PIXEL SHADING; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA STRUCTURES; HARDWARE; RAY TRACING; TEXTURES; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VISUALIZATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0242676104     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VISUAL.2003.1250390     Document Type: Conference Paper

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