Decoupling illumination from isosurface generation using 4D light transport

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1595-1602

  Banks, David C ^a,b   Beason, Kevin M ^c  

^a Oak Ridge National Laboratory   (United States)

^b The Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration & Repair   (United States)

^c Rhythm and Hues Studios ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

isosurface; level set; light transport; physically based illumination

Indexed keywords

3-D SCALAR; 3-MANIFOLD; 3D GRID; 3D TEXTURES; DATA SETS; DIMENSIONAL SPACES; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; HIGHER DIMENSIONS; ISO SURFACE; ISOSURFACE EXTRACTION; LEVEL SET; LIGHT TRANSPORT; NONUNIFORM SAMPLING; PHYSICALLY-BASED ILLUMINATION; RESAMPLES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY;

BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHTING;

EID: 70350634265     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2009.137     Document Type: Conference Paper

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