Exploiting frame-to-frame coherence for accelerating high-quality volume raycasting on graphics hardware

Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 29-

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frame to Frame Coherence; Programmable Graphics Hardware; Space Leaping; Volume Raycasting

Indexed keywords

FRAME TO FRAME COHERENCE; PROGRAMMABLE GRAPHICS HARDWARE; SPACE LEAPING; VOLUME RAYCASTING;

COHERENT LIGHT; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; OPTIMIZATION;

COMPUTER HARDWARE;

EID: 33749427429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VIS.2005.32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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