Squeeze: Numerical-precision-optimized volume rendering

Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 25-34

  Bitter, Ingmar ^a   Neophytou, Neophytos ^b   Mueller, Klaus ^b   Kaufman, Arie E ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAY CASTING; REDUCED MEMORY; RENDERING PIPELINES; SPLATTING; TEXTURE MAPS;

IMAGE QUALITY; VOLUME RENDERING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 78651274013     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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