GPU accelerated isosurface extraction on tetrahedral grids

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4291 LNCS - I, Issue , 2006, Pages 383-392

  Buatois, Luc ^a,b   Caumon, Guillaume ^a,c   Lévy, Bruno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c CRPG CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

GRAPHICS CARDS; GRAPHICS MEMORY; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT (GPU); VERTEX TEXTURE;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 33845453327     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11919476_39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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