Estimation and modeling of actual numerical errors in volume rendering

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 893-902

  Kronander, Joel ^a   Unger, Jonas ^a   Möller, Torsten ^b   Ynnerman, Anders ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

I.3.6 Computer Graphics : Methodology and Techniques Graphics data structures and data types

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; ERRORS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VOLUME RENDERING;

ADAPTIVE MODELS; COMPREHENSIVE EFFECT; DATA REPRESENTATIONS; FINITE PRECISION; FLOATING POINTS; I.3.6 [ COMPUTER GRAPHICS]: METHODOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES - GRAPHICS DATA STRUCTURES AND DATA TYPES; NUMERICAL ERRORS; SAMPLING FREQUENCIES;

DATA HANDLING;

EID: 77955757820     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01685.x     Document Type: Article

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