Simultaneous GPU-Assisted Raycasting of Unstructured Point Sets and Volumetric Grid Data

6th Eurographics / IEEE VGTC International Symposium on Volume Graphics, VG@Eurographics 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 49-56

  Kaehler, Ralf ^a,b   Abel, Tom ^b   Hege, Hans Christian ^a  

^a ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; GEOMETRY; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

FRAME BUFFER; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; GRID DATA; LOW-COSTS; PIXEL SHADER; POINT DATA; POINT SET; RAY CASTING; RENDERING APPROACH; VOLUMETRIC GRIDS;

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT;

EID: 55649107697     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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