Reflection nebula visualization

Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 33-

  Magnor, Marcus A ^a   Hildebrand, Kristian ^a   Lintu, Andrei ^a   Hanson, Andrew J ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Dust; Global illumination; Nebula; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS DISTRIBUTIONS; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; NEBULA; VOLUME RENDERING;

ALGORITHMS; ASTROPHYSICS; CLOUDS; DUST; LIGHT SCATTERING; VISUALIZATION;

REFLECTION;

EID: 33749426536     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VIS.2005.86     Document Type: Conference Paper

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