An advanced volume raycasting technique using GPU stream processing

GRAPP 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 190-198

  Mensmann, Jörg ^a   Ropinski, Timo ^a   Hinrichs, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

CUDA; Direct volume rendering; Raycasting; Stream processing

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION METHOD; CUDA; DEVICE FEATURES; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; GENERAL PROGRAMMING MODEL; HARDWARE FEATURES; PROGRAMMING INTERFACE; RAYCASTING; SHADER PROGRAMMING; STREAM PROCESSING; VOLUME RAYCASTING; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER HARDWARE; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

HYDRAULICS;

EID: 77956337847     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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