Scalable data servers for large multivariate volume visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1291-1298

  Glatter, Markus ^a,b   Mollenhour, Colin ^a,b   Huang, Jian ^a,b   Gao, Jinzhu ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Large data set visualization; Multi variate visualization; Parallel and distributed volume visualization; Volume visualization

Indexed keywords

LARGE DATA SET VISUALIZATION; MULTI-VARIATE VISUALIZATION; PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED VOLUME VISUALIZATION; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; QUERY LANGUAGES; VISUALIZATION;

SERVERS;

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

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

EID: 33845672205     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.175     Document Type: Conference Paper

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