Hardware-assisted Projected Tetrahedra

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 903-912

  Maximo, A ^a   Marroquim, R ^a   Farias, R ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

I.3.3 Computer Graphics : Picture Image Generation Viewing algorithms; I.3.6 Computer Graphics : Methodology and Techniques Graphics data structures and data types

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER HARDWARE; GEOMETRY; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HARDWARE; RASTERIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

GEOMETRIC PRIMITIVES; HARDWARE-ASSISTED; I.3.6 [ COMPUTER GRAPHICS]: METHODOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES - GRAPHICS DATA STRUCTURES AND DATA TYPES; PROJECTED TETRAHEDRA; RENDERING PROCESS; TIME-VARYING DATA; VIEWING ALGORITHMS; VISIBILITY ORDERING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 77955820646     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01673.x     Document Type: Article

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