Fast isosurface rendering on a gpu by cell rasterization

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2151-2164

  Liu, B ^a   Clapworthy, G J ^a   Dong, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Graphics hardware; Isosurface; Marching cubes; Raycasting

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RASTERIZATION;

GRAPHICS HARDWARE; IMPLICIT SURFACES; ISO SURFACE; MARCHING CUBE; RAYCASTING; REAL-TIME RENDERING; RENDERING PIPELINES; SORTING ALGORITHM;

RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

EID: 72249089955     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01422.x     Document Type: Article

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