Parallel volume rendering with early ray termination for visualizing large-scale datasets

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

Volumn 3358, Issue , 2004, Pages 245-256

  Matsui, Manabu ^a   Ino, Fumihiko ^a   Hagihara, Kenichi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

% REDUCTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL AMOUNTS; EARLY RAY TERMINATION; LARGE-SCALE DATASETS; LOAD-BALANCED; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; PARALLEL VOLUME RENDERING; RENDERING SYSTEM; TRANSPARENT OBJECTS; VISUALIZING VOLUMES;

VOLUME RENDERING; OPTIMIZATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; VOLUME RENDERING;

EID: 35048874671     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30566-8_30     Document Type: Article

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