Interactive volume rendering of functional representations in quantum chemistry

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1579-1586

  Jang, Yun ^a   Varetto, Ugo ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Centro Svizzero Di Calcolo Scientifico   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

GPU; GTO; Quantum Chemistry; Volume Rendering

Indexed keywords

2D TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; ATOMIC BONDS; ATOMIC LEVELS; BASIS FUNCTIONS; CHEMISTRY SIMULATIONS; CHEMISTRY STRUCTURE; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; ELECTRON DENSITIES; FUNCTIONAL REPRESENTATION; GAUSSIANS; GPU; GRID STRUCTURES; GTO; ILLUSTRATIVE RENDERING; ISO SURFACE; ISO-CONTOURS; RESAMPLING; VISUALIZATION TOOLS; VOLUME CLIPPING; VOLUMETRIC REPRESENTATION;

COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; DATA TRANSFER; QUANTUM THEORY; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 77957889510     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2009.158     Document Type: Conference Paper

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