Empty Space Skipping and Occlusion Clipping for Texture-based Volume Rendering

Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 317-324

  Li, Wei ^a   Mueller, Klaus ^a   Kaufman, Arie ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Empty space skipping; Graphics hardware; Occlusion clipping; Orthogonal opacity map; Texture based volume rendering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA TRANSFER; INTERPOLATION; OPACITY;

GRAPHICS HARDWARE; OCCLUSION CLIPPING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0242676107     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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