Hardware-accelerated, high-quality rendering based on trivariate splines approximating volume data

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 331-340

  Kalbe, Thomas ^a   Zeilfelder, Frank ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER HARDWARE; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HARDWARE; ITERATIVE METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

GPU IMPLEMENTATION; HARDWARE-ACCELERATED; INTERACTIVE FRAME RATES; MEMORY CONSUMPTION; REAL-TIME RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL DATA STRUCTURE; TRIVARIATE SPLINES; VIEW FRUSTUM CULLING; GPU IMPLEMENTATIONS; HIGH QUALITY RENDERING; PHONG ILLUMINATION;

RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS); COMPUTER HARDWARE;

EID: 42949154157     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2008.01130.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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