Volume and isosurface rendering with GPU-accelerated cell projection

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 24-35

  Marroquim, R ^a   Maximo, A ^a   Farias, R ^a   Esperanca C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cell projection; Direct volume rendering; Isosurface rendering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; ISOSURFACE RENDERING;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 42649084706     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2007.01038.x     Document Type: Article

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