Visualization of cosmological particle-based datasets

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1712-1718

  Navrátil, Paul Arthur ^a,b   Johnson, Jarrett L ^c   Bromm, Volker ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Cosmology; Interpolation; Isosurface

Indexed keywords

COSMIC TRANSITIONS; DATASETS; ISOSURFACE; PHOTON MAPPING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERPOLATION; STARS;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 35948945326     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70526     Document Type: Article

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