High performance SIMD marching cubes isosurface extraction on commodity computers

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 213-233

  Newman, Timothy S ^a   Brad Byrd, J ^a   Emani, Pavan ^a   Narayanan, Amit ^a   Dastmalchi, Abouzar ^a  

^a University of Alabama in Huntsville ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Isosurface extraction; Marching Cubes; Microcomputers; SIMD; Vector parallelism

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA PROCESSING; EDGE DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VECTORS; VISUALIZATION;

ISOSURFACE EXTRACTION; MARCHING CUBES; SINGLE INSTRUCTION MULTIPLE DATA (SIMD); VECTOR-PARRALELISM;

PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

EID: 1342323419     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2003.12.008     Document Type: Article

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