A simple and flexible volume rendering framework for graphics-hardware - Based raycasting

Volume Graphics 2005 Eurographics/IEEE VGTC Workshop Proceedings - Fourth International Workshop on Volume Graphics

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 187-195

  Stegmaier, Simon ^a   Strengert, Magnus ^a   Klein, Thomas ^a   Ertl, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER HARDWARE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; STANDARDS;

GRAPHICS HARDWARE; RAYCASTING; SHADER FUNCTIONALITY; VOLUME RENDERING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 33745285344     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/vg.2005.194114     Document Type: Conference Paper

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