GPU simulation and rendering of volumetric effects for computer games and virtual environments

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 685-693

  Krüger, Jens ^a   Westermann, Rüdiger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TEXTURES;

COMPUTER GAMES; GRAPHICS PROGRAMMING UNITS (GPUS); VISUAL SIMULATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 33745291021     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2005.00893.x     Document Type: Article

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