Direct volume rendering: A 3D plotting technique for scientific data

Computing in Science and Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 88-91

  Callahan, Steven P ^a   Callahan, Jason H ^a   Scheldegger, Carlos E ^a   Silva, Claudio T ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b IEEE

^c ACM

^d Eurographics ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; INFORMATION OVERLOAD; SCALAR VALUES;

DATA REDUCTION; INTERPOLATION; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; OPACITY; TABLE LOOKUP; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

VOLUME RENDERING;

EID: 38149071834     PISSN: 15219615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2008.7     Document Type: Article

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