Volume exploration using ellipsoidal Gaussian transfer functions

IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2010, PacificVis 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 25-32

  Wang, Yunhai ^a,b   Chen, Wei ^c   Shan, Guihua ^a,b   Dong, Tingxin ^a,b   Chi, Xuebin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

I.3.7 computing methodologies : computer graphics three dimensional graphics and realism

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DESIGN TOOL; FEATURE SEPARATION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; GAUSSIAN TRANSFER FUNCTION; GAUSSIANS; GPU IMPLEMENTATION; I.3.7 [COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES]: COMPUTER GRAPHICS - THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICS AND REALISM; INTUITIVE CONTROLS; PRE-INTEGRATED VOLUME RENDERING; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VOLUMETRIC FEATURES;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EID: 77951675377     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2010.5429612     Document Type: Conference Paper

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