Fast implicit KD-trees: Accelerated isosurface ray tracing and maximum intensity projection for large scalar fields

Proceedings of the 9th IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging, CGIM 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 67-74

  Groß, Matthias ^a   Lojewski, Carsten ^a   Bertram, Martin ^b   Hagen, Hans ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL MATHEMATICS ITWM   (Germany)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Implicit KD trees; Iso surface extraction; Large data set visualization; Maximum intensity projection; Ray tracing; Time varying volume data

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA VISUALIZATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PLASMA WAVES; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VISUALIZATION;

IMPLICIT KD-TREES; ISO-SURFACE EXTRACTION; LARGE DATA SET VISUALIZATION; MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION; TIME-VARYING VOLUME DATA;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 41549110222     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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