Volume visualization on sparse grids Texture hardware based volume rendering on compressed data sets

Computing and Visualization in Science

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-59

  Teitzel, Christian ^a   Hopf, Matthias ^b   Grosso, Roberto ^c   Ertl, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMPRESSION; FLUID MECHANICS; HARDWARE; NUMERICAL MODELS; TEXTURES; VISUALIZATION;

COMPRESSION METHODS; FRACTAL COMPRESSION; GRAPHICS WORKSTATIONS; HIERARCHICAL TENSORS; INTERACTIVE FRAME RATES; NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SPARSE GRID INTERPOLATIONS; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

VOLUME RENDERING;

EID: 3943091721     PISSN: 14329360     EISSN: 14330369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007910050026     Document Type: Article

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