Visibility-driven transfer functions

IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, PacificVis 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 177-184

  Correa, Carlos D ^a   Ma, Kkwan Liu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

I.3.7 computing methodologies : Computer graphics three dimensional graphics and realism; Transfer functions; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

2D IMAGES; 3D DATA; COMPLEX DATASETS; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; FUNCTION PARAMETERS; I.3.7 [COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES]: COMPUTER GRAPHICS - THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICS AND REALISM; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; OPACITY TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; RENDERING ALGORITHMS; RENDERING PROCESS; SCALAR VALUES; SEMI-AUTOMATED; TIME-CONSUMING TASKS; VISUALIZATION SYSTEM; VOLUME DATA SETS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; MACHINE DESIGN; OPACITY; SET THEORY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISIBILITY; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EID: 67650548442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2009.4906854     Document Type: Conference Paper

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