Projecting Tetrahedra without rendering artifacts

IEEE Visualization 2004 - Proceedings, VIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 27-34

  Kraus, Martin ^a   Qiao, Wei ^a   Ebert, David S ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell projection; Dithering; Perspective interpolation; Programmable graphics hardware; Projected tetrahedra; Volume rendering; Volume visualization

Indexed keywords

CELL PROJECTION; DITHERING; PERSPECTIVE INTERPOLATION; PROGRAMMABLE GRAPHICS HARDWARE; PROJECTED TETRAHEDRA; VOLUME RENDERING; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; GRAPHIC METHODS; INTERPOLATION; MAPPING; PROBLEM SOLVING; TEXTURES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

VISIBILITY;

EID: 17044381651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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