Full-resolution interactive CPU volume rendering with coherent BVH traversal

IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2011, PacificVis 2011 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3-10

  Knoll, Aaron ^a   Thelen, Sebastian ^b   Wald, Ingo ^c   Hansen, Charles D ^d   Hagen, Hans ^b   Papka, Michael E ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHIES; EFFICIENT METHOD; LARGE DATASETS; LEVEL-OF-DETAIL; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; OUT-OF-CORE; RAYCASTING; TRILINEAR INTERPOLATION; VOLUMETRIC INTEGRATION;

LAPTOP COMPUTERS; OPTIMIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

VOLUME RENDERING;

EID: 79955698625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2011.5742355     Document Type: Conference Paper

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