Interactive isosurface ray tracing of time-varying tetrahedral volumes

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1727-1734

  Wald, Ingo ^a,b   Friedrich, Heiko ^c   Knoll, Aaron ^b   Hansen, Charles D ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Isosurfaces; Ray tracing; Scalar fields; Tetrahedra; Time varying data; Unstructured meshes

Indexed keywords

ISOSURFACE; SCALAR FIELDS; TETRAHEDRAL VOLUMES; TIME-VARYING DATA; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

DATA STRUCTURES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RAY TRACING; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

VOLUME RENDERING;

EID: 35948966345     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70566     Document Type: Article

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