High-quality Rendering of Smooth Isosurfaces

Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 79-90

  LaMar, Eric ^b   Hamann, Bernd ^b   Joy, Kenneth I ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Animation; Approximation; Catmull rom splines; Hardy's multiquadric scheme; Isosurfaces; Ray casting; Resampling; Trilinear splines; Volume visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242702086     PISSN: 10498907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1778(199904/06)10:2<79::AID-VIS197>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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