Parallel volume rendering using PC graphics hardware

Proceedings - Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 384-389

  Magallón, Marcelo ^a   Hopf, Matthias ^a   Ertl, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); COMPUTER HARDWARE; HARDWARE; HIGH SPEED NETWORKS; MICROCOMPUTERS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; SMART CARDS; VOLUME RENDERING;

ACCELERATOR BOARDS; COMMODITY OFF THE SHELVES; GRAPHIC CARDS; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; HIGH-SPEED NETWORK DEVICES; PARALLEL VOLUME RENDERING; PERFORMANCE VISUALIZATION; TRANSFER SPEED;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 18144413750     PISSN: 15504085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/PCCGA.2001.962895     Document Type: Article

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