Texture-encoded tetrahedral strips

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics 2004. VolVis 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 71-78

  Weiler, Manfred ^a   Mallón, Paula N ^b   Kraus, Martin ^c   Ertl, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell projection; Pixel shading; Pre integrated volume rendering; Programmable graphics hardware; Ray casting; Tetrahedral meshes; Tetrahedral strips; Unstructured meshes; Volume visualization

Indexed keywords

CELL PROJECTION; PIXEL SHADING; PRE-INTEGRATED VOLUME RENDERING; PROGRAMMABLE GRAPHICS HARDWARE; RAY CASTING; TETRAHEDRAL MESHES; TETRAHEDRAL STRIPS; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA STRUCTURES; GRAPH THEORY; VISUALIZATION;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 15944370516     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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