Progressive volume rendering of large unstructured grids

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1307-1314

  Callahan, Steven P ^b   Bavoil, Louis ^b   Pascucci, Valerio ^a,c   Silva, Cláudio T ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Client server; Large unstructured grids; Level of detail; Progressive rendering; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

LARGE UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS; LEVEL-OF-DETAIL; PROGRESSIVE RENDERING; RENDERED IMAGES; VOLUME RENDERING;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA STRUCTURES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA BASE; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33845605911     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.171     Document Type: Conference Paper

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