A directional occlusion shading model for interactive direct volume rendering

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 855-862

  Schott, Mathias ^a   Pegoraro, Vincent ^a   Hansen, Charles ^a   Boulanger, Kévin ^b   Bouatouch, Kadi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; VOLUME RENDERING; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

AMBIENT OCCLUSION; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; INTERACTIVE EXPLORATION; RADIATIVE TRANSPORT EQUATION; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; TRANSPARENT SURFACES; VOLUMETRIC DATA SETS; VOLUMETRIC RENDERING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 68549085152     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01464.x     Document Type: Article

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