The design and evaluation of a pipelined image compositing device for massively parallel volume rendering

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 45, Issue , 2003, Pages 61-68

  Ogata, Masato ^a,d   Muraki, Shigeru ^b,d   Liu, Xuezhen ^a,d   Ma, Kwan Liu ^c,d  

^a Mitsubishi Precision Co Ltd   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c Davis   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; GRAPHICS CARD; IMAGE COMPOSITING; PARALLEL VOLUME RENDERING; PC CLUSTERS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

PLASMA SOURCES; VOLUME RENDERING;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77953770095     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/827051.827060     Document Type: Conference Paper

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