A real-time volume rendering architecture using an adaptive resampling scheme for parallel and perspective projections

Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization, VVS 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 31-38

  Ogata, Masato ^a,b   Ohkami, Takahide ^a   Lauer, Hugh C ^a   Pfister, Hanspeter ^a  

^a Mitsubishi Electric Information Technology Center America   (United States)

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Parallel projection; Perspective projection; Raycasting; Raytracing; Real time; Scientific visualization; Systolic array; Volume graphics; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONVOLUTION; DATA VISUALIZATION; PIPELINES; RAY TRACING; SYSTOLIC ARRAYS; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

PARALLEL PROJECTION; PERSPECTIVE PROJECTIONS; RAYCASTING; REAL TIME; VOLUME GRAPHICS;

PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

EID: 78650638343     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/288126.288146     Document Type: Conference Paper

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