A hardware architecture for multi-resolution volume rendering

Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 45-51

  Wetekam, G ^a   Staneker, D ^a   Kanus, U ^a   Wand, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DATA COMPRESSION; DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE; MULTI RESOLUTION VOLUME RENDERING; RAY CASTING ARCHITECTURE; VOXEL MEMORY RESOURCES;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 33750908242     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1071866.1071874     Document Type: Conference Paper

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