Real-time ray-casting and advanced shading of discrete isosurfaces

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 303-312

  Hadwiger, Markus ^a   Sigg, Christian ^b   Scharsach, Henning ^a   Bühler, Khatja ^a   Gross, Markus ^b  

^a VRVIS RESEARCH CENTER   (Austria)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASTING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; HARDWARE;

DISCRETE ISOSURFACES; GRID POINTS; REAL-TIME RAY-CASTING; ADAPTIVE SAMPLING; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; EMPTY SPACE SKIPPING; EXTRINSIC CURVATURES; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; HIERARCHICAL REPRESENTATION; ITERATIVE REFINEMENT; REAL-TIME RENDERING;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

EID: 33745326117     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2005.00855.x     Document Type: Article

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