A perceptive evaluation of volume rendering techniques

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Boucheny, Christian ^a   Bonneau, Georges Pierre ^a   Droulez, Jacques ^b   Thibault, Guillaume ^c   Ploix, Stephane ^c  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c EDF R AND D   (France)

Author keywords

Direct volume rendering; Perception of transparency; Perspective projection; Structure from motion

Indexed keywords

DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; DYNAMIC CONTEXTS; DYNAMIC CUES; DYNAMIC DISPLAYS; LIGHTING MODELS; MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTIONS; MOTION PARALLAXES; PERCEPTION OF TRANSPARENCY; PERSPECTIVE PROJECTION; SPACE FILLINGS; STATIC REPRESENTATIONS; STRUCTURE FROM MOTION; VOLUMETRIC DATUM;

DATA VISUALIZATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TRANSPARENCY; VIDEODISKS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

VOLUME RENDERING;

EID: 60349120833     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1462048.1462054     Document Type: Article

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