Ray casting of multiple volumetric datasets with polyhedral boundaries on manycore GPUs

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Kainz, Bernhard ^a   Grabner, Markus ^a   Bornik, Alexander ^b   Hauswiesner, Stefan ^a   Muehl, Judith ^a   Schmalstieg, Dieter ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; DEPTH COMPLEXITY; FULL CONTROL; GPU-BASED RENDERING; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; HIGH BANDWIDTH; INTERACTIVE FRAME RATES; LOW LATENCY; MANY-CORE; MEMORY HIERARCHY; ON CURRENTS; POLYHEDRAL OBJECTS; RASTERIZATION; RAY CASTING; SHARED MEMORIES; VOLUMETRIC DATA SETS;

ACCESS CONTROL; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 77749264949     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1661412.1618498     Document Type: Conference Paper

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