Image-space visibility ordering for cell projection volume rendering of unstructured data

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 695-707

  Cook, Richard ^a,b   Max, Nelson ^a,b,d   Silva, Cláudio T ^a,c,d,e,f,g   Williams, Peter L ^a,b,h  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^d University of Utah ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^f Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute   (United States)

^g ACM   (United States)

^h Center for Applied Scientific Computing   (United States)

Author keywords

Unstructured mesh; Visibility ordering; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

UNSTRUCTURED MESH; VISIBILITY RENDERING; VOLUME RENDERING;

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 29244440771     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2004.45     Document Type: Article

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