Improvement of particle-based volume rendering for visualizing irregular volume data sets

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-42

  Sakamoto, Noahisa ^a   Kawamura, Takuma ^a   Koyamada, Koji ^a   Nozaki, Kazunori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hexahedral cells; Large scale irregular volume datasets; Tetrahedral cells; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; PIXELS; VISIBILITY; VOLUME RENDERING;

COMPOSITING; FRAME BUFFER; IRREGULAR GRIDS; PARTICLE GENERATION; REGULAR GRIDS; TETRAHEDRAL CELLS; VISIBILITY ORDERING; VOLUME DATA SETS;

LARGE DATASET;

EID: 75149146778     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2009.12.001     Document Type: Article

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