GPU-based cell projection for interactive volume rendering

Brazilian Symposium of Computer Graphic and Image Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 147-154

  Marroquim, Ricardo ^a   Maximo, André ^a   Farias, Ricardo ^a   Esperança, Claudio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; GRAPH THEORY; RAY TRACING; USER INTERFACES;

MEMORY FOOTPRINT; PROGRAMMABLE GRAPHICS CARDS; UNSTRUCTURED DATA;

VOLUME RENDERING;

EID: 34948879592     PISSN: 15301834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIBGRAPI.2006.22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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