Volume ray casting with peak finding and differential sampling

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1571-1578

  Knoll, Aaron ^a   Hijazi, Younis ^b   Westerteiger, Rolf ^a   Schott, Mathias ^c   Hansen, Charles ^c   Hagen, Hans ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

direct volume rendering; isosurface; preintegration; ray casting; ray differentials; sampling; transfer function; view dependent

Indexed keywords

DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; ISO SURFACE; PRE-INTEGRATION; RAY CASTING; RAY DIFFERENTIALS; VIEW-DEPENDENT;

DATA VISUALIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EID: 77957827328     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2009.204     Document Type: Conference Paper

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