Enhancing depth-perception with flexible volumetric halos

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1344-1351

  Bruckner, Stefan ^b   Eduard Groller M ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Halos; Illustrative visualization; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

HALO TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; HALOS; ILLUSTRATIVE VISUALIZATION; VOLUMETRIC HALOS;

ALGORITHMS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; LIGHT; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

VOLUME RENDERING;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, ARTISTIC; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; MODELS, ANATOMIC; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 35948934260     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70555     Document Type: Article

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