Texture Partitioning and Packing for Accelerating Texture-based Volume Rendering

Proceedings - Graphics Interface

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 81-88

  Li, Wei ^a   Kaufman, Arie ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Box growing; Empty space skipping; Graphics hardware; Lossless texture compression; Texture packing; Texture partitioning; Texture based volume rendering

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHMS; COHERENT LIGHT; COMPACTION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; GRADIENT METHODS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHTING; MODULATION; PACKING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

BOX GROWING; EMPTY SPACE SKIPPING; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; LOSSLESS TEXTURE COMPRESSION; TEXTURE PACKING; TEXTURE PARTITIONING; TEXTURE-BASED VOLUME RENDERING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0242702101     PISSN: 07135424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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