Fast volumetric display of natural gaseous phenomena

Proceedings of Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 74-81

  Roettger, S ^a   Ertl, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Application software; Clouds; Computer displays; Computer graphics; Data visualization; Interactive systems; Interpolation; Layout; Rendering (computer graphics)

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHMS; APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CLOUDS; DATA VISUALIZATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERPOLATION; MESH GENERATION; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS); VOLUME RENDERING;

COMPUTER DISPLAY; CONTINUOUS LEVEL OF DETAIL; HIERARCHICAL TETRAHEDRAL MESHES; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; LAYOUT; MESH SIMPLIFICATIONS; SIMPLIFICATION METHOD; VOLUME RENDERING ALGORITHM;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 15944425466     PISSN: 15301052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CGI.2003.1214450     Document Type: Conference Paper

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