Pre-integrated volume rendering with non-linear gradient interpolation

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1487-1494

  Guetat, Amel ^a   Ancel, Alexandre ^a   Marchesin, Stephane ^b   Dischler, Jean Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

direct volume rendering; gradient interpolation; pre integration

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFYING EFFECT; CURRENT TECHNIQUES; DIRECT VOLUME RENDERING; GRADIENT INTERPOLATION; GRADIENT VARIATIONS; HIGH FREQUENCY; ILLUMINATION MODELS; INTEGRATED CLASSIFICATION; LOOK UP TABLE; NON-LINEAR; PHOTO-REALISTIC; PRE-INTEGRATED VOLUME RENDERING; PRE-INTEGRATION; QUADRATIC CURVES; SIMPLE APPROACH; VOLUME DATA SETS;

INTERPOLATION; TABLE LOOKUP;

VOLUME RENDERING;

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78149244500     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.187     Document Type: Article

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