Hybrid Volume and Polygon Rendering with Cube Hardware

Proceedings - SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 15-24

  Kreeger, Kevin ^a   Kaufman, Arie ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cube architecture; Mixing polygons and volumes; Ray casting; Run length encoding; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; GEOMETRY; MIXING; SIGNAL ENCODING; VOLUME RENDERING;

COMPOSITING; CUBE ARCHITECTURE; FRAME BUFFER; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; HARDWARE ACCELERATORS; MIXING POLYGON AND VOLUME; RAY CASTING; RENDERING HARDWARE; RUN-LENGTH ENCODING; TRANSLUCENTS;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS);

EID: 0343653438     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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