High-quality hardware-based ray-casting volume rendering using partial pre-integration

Brazilian Symposium of Computer Graphic and Image Processing

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 273-280

  Espinha, Rodrigo ^a   Celes, Waldemar ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA TRANSFER; IMAGE QUALITY; INTEGRATION; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ARTIFACTS; CELL PROJECTION; PROGRAMMABLE GRAPHICS CARDS; RAY CASTING;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 33847267714     PISSN: 15301834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIBGRAPI.2005.29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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