Hardware-assisted point-based volume rendering of tetrahedral meshes

Proceedings of SIBGRAPI 2007 - 20th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 163-170

  Anderson, Erik W ^a   Callahan, Steven P ^a   Scheidegger, Carlos E ^a   Schreiner, John M ^a   Silva, Cláudio T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE ACCELERATIONS; INTERACTIVITY; LARGE DATA SETS; NOVEL METHODS; SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING; SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATIONS; TETRAHEDRAL MESHES; UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; VOLUME RENDERING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 47749083067     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIBGRAPI.2007.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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