A Practical Evaluation of Popular Volume Rendering Algorithms

2000 IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization, VV 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 81-90

  Huang, Jian ^b   Mueller, Klaus ^c   Crawfis, Roger ^b   Bartz, Dirk ^a   Meißner, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

raycasting; volume rendering

Indexed keywords

QUALITY CONTROL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING;

3D TEXTURE MAPPING; BENCHMARK DATASETS; HARDWARE-ASSISTED; IMAGE SYNTHESIS; OPTICAL MODELING; RAYCASTING; SHEAR-WARP; VOLUME RENDERING ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 80053407715     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VV.2000.10009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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