Convexification of unstructured grids

Vision, Modeling and Visualization 2004, VMV 2004 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 283-292

  Roettger, Stefan ^a   Guthe, Stefan ^b   Schieber, Andreas ^c   Ertl, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell projection; Convexification; Preintegration; Unstructured grids; Visibility sorting; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

CELL PROJECTION; CONVEXIFICATION; PRE-INTEGRATION; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; VISIBILITY SORTING;

SORTING;

EID: 35948965043     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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