Visibility culling for time-varying volume rendering using temporal occlusion coherence

IEEE Visualization 2004 - Proceedings, VIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 147-154

  Gao, Jinzhu ^a,c   Shen, Han Wei ^a   Huang, Jian ^b   Kohl, James Arthur ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Large data visualization; Plenoptic opacity function; Time varying data visualization; Visibility culling; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

LARGE DATA VISUALIZATION; TIME-VARYING DATA VISUALIZATION; VISIBILITY CULLING; VOLUME RENDERING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; OPACITY; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 17044383293     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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