Overview of volume rendering

Visualization Handbook

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 127-174

  Kaufman, Arie ^a   Mueller, Klaus ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012387582-2/50009-5     Document Type: Chapter

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